political travels by a grexer...

Apr 17 09:05 UTC 1997

   
   I got back to San Salvador a week ago Saturday but fell ill  with
   the  flu  and was incapacitated for seversl days. On Wednesday of
   last week I went to Guatemala City and on Thursday I went to  the
   Pacific  coastal  town of Monterrico. I got to Antigua, Guatemala
   on Saturday afternoon. I am  in the process of finishing the Cuba 
   article and should have it over to you by Friday or so.
   
      I was intrigued and disturbed by the story that woman told  me
   regarding  the Turk and his scamming ways in Cuba. Adinay told me
   he was going  to see if anything could be done.  I am  interested 
   in an update on this situation. I  am  accessable  here by fax or 
   e-mail till Saturday at the earliest.
   
   I left the U.S. on De cember twelfth to scatter my father's ashes
   in  the  La Selva Bio sphere Reserve in Costa Rica which he esta-
   blished over twenty years ago.  My brother and I travelled around
   various national parks for almost a month in Costa Rica and Pana-
   ma. He went home on the ninth of January and I proceeded  to  Ni-
   caragua  where  I  had  spent a month from mid October to mid No-
   vember to watch and cover the elections.
   
   I was there for almost two months, among other things  consulting
   with a radio station to improve its signal delivery to Managua on
   99.9 FM. They were using a horseshit  quarter-wave  ground  plane
   with  an  astronomically  high SWR. A re lated team of people are
   currently applying for a shortwave broadcast license.  If  it  is
   approved I'll go back to help put the station on the air.
   
   For   the   record    Radio    Pirata    has    a    Web    page:
   http://www.ibw.com.ni/~pirata.  Their  normal e-mail ad dress is:
   pirata@ibw.com.ni. One of you should message them on my behalf to
   find  out  about the shortwave license application process and if
   they ever fixed their FM antenna. I put their chief  engineer  in
   touch with the CE of Radio for Peace Interna tional for his input
   but I don't know if anything transpired from it.
   
   From Nicaragua I went to El Salvador for a couple of weeks before
   flying  to Havana for a month. I returned to El Sal for five days
   before travelling off to Guatemala.
   
   Guatemala City is a really shitty piece of work full  of  thieves
   and  muggers  and  all  sorts of other shit. I went the very next
   morning to the Pacific coastal town of Monterrico where I relaxed
   for  two days, recover ing the final bit from a case of the flu I
   contracted upon my re turn to El Salvador.
   
   I've been here in Antigua, Guatemala since Saturday afternoon and
   expect  to leave here on monday morning of next week. Any traffic
   to be directed to me after Sunday 6 PM (8 PM EDT or Midnight UTC)
   should   be  directed  to  my  normal  e-mail  address  which  is
   graymatt@cyberspace.org.  My people at least  supposedly  forward
   material  from my talk-show address to wherever I am in the world
   at the moment.
   
   More as soon as possible, your friend, Des