love the nullity michel polanco
I’ve been here is standing rage de irujo and
good
good afternoon, good evening my name is
michel polanco
I come from the end of the candle I’m wayúu from
plan and good my house is called the
rancheria utah many years ago
I made a good decision for me
and life was returning from the city
from Bogota where I had started my
university studies where there was
culminated his university studies
to return to the ranchería that my
mother has created for many years
with much effort much told me that
what what was coming back to me to see
do you come to this mountain
I was sure that yes we do not fit the
minor doubt because who else for that
he made up himself to believe in my land
that it is not a mountain but it is a
land that has potential and that’s when
you can just keep me in my
position with the certainty that of
that from the hand of my mom that
is not always pushing that not that and
of my brothers and others
relatives as we could develop
this is this family business and take out
ahead the ranchería like is product
of a generational change
my grandmother gave the land to my mom and
biomass has taught us all
us your children to work the the
ranchería like is an accommodation where
we offer cabins
and typical of giotto gold and also
we have the restaurant service where
for this we offer the
weighing the visitors
of all this has not been was not a task
suddenly easy because then the
conditions are always difficult and
they take their time to ourselves we do not
It took time to understand the type of tourism
what we wanted to develop to start
because previously in carbon
the end of the candle did not reach many
visitors
well we in which we started in
in to seek support for example we came
here to the city of riohacha to search
support enter the travel agencies to
to let us know and also with support from
others of others from many people who
they brought us for example a tourist not
I say good I can do them
exchange between food and
stay and and we created a web page
and that’s what they’re going to see many
people and also other people who
that in that same way they told us that
what did we sell the land that we do not
let’s do a side and also of certain
another way they told us that that
let’s change the concept and let’s be
pool that we echáramos buildings of all
it is a path that remains that we
same we say that that is not what I
what we want for our territory
nick that’s not us we want
preserve our typical architecture
we want you to offer gastronomy
typical nono open to others other
way and when good
we understood that we had to identify
we are wayúu we do not have to
copy other things but make it strong
in what we have to
appropriate that and and forward and
we start there in all that way of
where did they go
to force ourselves to be invited moshi we invite
to the same family and to the people
close to other communities are
inhabitants of the same cape of the sail and
surrounding communities that like the
fishermen artisan dance groups
that between all can be
We could somehow find the
way of what we want to
the end of the candle that is to offer a
calm silence tourism
also a tourism oriented to asia
mainly towards showing our
cultural wealth in all that way
good if it was or not not it was not so easy
for ourselves because at the beginning
we were focused on filling
come tourist come tourists like this
in that way because it is first of all always
is the sustenance of both of us
themselves and of the other families that
they also depend on the activity
touristic but that’s where where one
where for example I said to him by
example to my mom and my good brother
we are going to do this or we are going to receive
tourists but tourists that from
some way they identify with this
that we want to offer because if
no, it is preferable to have this empty
and and so no no no no way we do not
it is not sustainable that way it is so
how we started to walk around that
path
conesa with that clear purpose and and
talking a lot to the people that we
they already visit people who were approaching us
of our ideas
that’s how on that road
I tell you that for example the end of the
candle is a is has a high importance
cultural for the Wayuu people and within
of the guajira
The end of the candle is considered for
we the wayuu pie
it was the most sacred place that has to
has the wium because you have the
belief we have the belief that there is
where the bayu rests after it dies
then in a certain way they told us
but it will not be that you are
inventing transient to attract
tourists and and fill and no that’s not
no story or any what
thing that creates a reality and and I know
I say it today that we ourselves
wayúu guajiros we have to do
respect this this experience that we
that we as a living people have
then from there where we started to
generate experiences that we have to
entertain visitors and that and that
educate them in the face of the cultural theme of
the Wayúu culture as well as with the support
of institutions
nowadays it is a reality within the
ranchería like the cultural enramada the
cultural enramada we have achieved it as
I tell them with the support of institutions
educational that not that they have believed in
us and and where with care and with
effort we have presented proposal and
we left favored and also with
the support of friends filmmakers
filmmakers and that they have
borrowed their videos their works
for us is within the
cultural enramada that is where we have
a cinema forum a reading center a
rest area we can show that
those those materials
all with the objective of educating the
tourist in front of ours
that we want to develop in the
candle cape
Cape sailing the Cape in the
candle activity has been developed
tourist for many years many
years of gift
the many visit the cape of the candle is
par excellence the tourist destination of
the guajira there is not a one politics already
there is not one as a line of
develop tourism and it’s up to now
where we ourselves the natives do not
I say all the corporal of the candle that would be
then come here to cast fables but
yes a group of people group
identify with that the end of the candle
must rethink in front of the subject
tourist is that if we want tourists
but if we want visitors but visit
come to take care of the territory
respect it in the way we do
we see is where where group of
families of people we have not been
leaving behind the disunions and
joining to talk about the del
tourism we want and the future that
we want to for the end of the candle is
where is born what is nowadays called
community agreement
the community agreement is a is a
document that we have done
between all and because the agreement is born in
the populate an agreement as it has been
called because from within
all the time that develops the
tourist activity have emerged
situations I tell you that situations
as originated because suddenly so much
tourist brought a lot of noise to
excess noise territory also that
has finished with the tranquility of the cape
of the candle many garbage also the
excess of street vendors and
many problems or situations that remain
soon they come to move us
as a wayuu from the area
then we all not in a group
we’ve put together so you can put it in front
to this situation and
just as I am today I have been this
just as my mom could not help me
give that relief and teach us this job
I can also do it with comic with
my children with my grandchildren
then based on that is that we want
we want to take care of the corporal respect him
they want us more than us
ourselves as Wayuu from there
of the area and we have that great
responsibility to take care of this this
territory that we do that task is for
This is shown to be possible
make sustainable tourism for the
Uruguayan people
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
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