Tuesday, December 10, 2002

ARG-MENIA


Ok...the slowest logger of the "cilician" diáspora is again with you. I ended my exams and i do not care if they went wrong or not. I am happy because i ended at last!!!
All the institutions celebrating the end of the educational season meanwhile the strong heat smashes the Buenos Aires´ pavement.
We heard with joy about the Botero´s Big Cat Sculpture in Yerevan. Joining that news to the picture i saw of Yerevan recently in the Repatriate Log page makes me think that Yerevan, Armenia and Karabagh are growing a lot. Its developement brings joy and calm to every diasporan soul in this planet.
I´m very happy to have an argentinean new partner in the log!!! She is Rosita Youssefian the most active armenian teacher in Argentina. She is constantly working for Armenia and Karabagh trough education. I am sure her logs will be very rich about its contents.
The Argentinean Hockey Female team won the world championship of Grass-Hockey. So here argentieneans are very exited. On one hand because of the champioship and in the other because of this girls that are extremely beatiful... ;-)
It has been long time since the last time i e-mailed Aram Hajian. I tried to see his project about the armenian vernissage many times but i couldnt. Finally the project is done and its called MADE IN ARMENIA DIRECT You will find lots of armenian gifts, accesories and other that every tourist would like to buy in a trip to armenia. Now this projects makes a closer way to buy those things and to make an increasement in the armenian economy.
Other issue about the Baron Der lands in Jerusalem. Finally the goverment of Sharon will pay the damages caused in the armenian property of Baron Der. The isreal´s army will keep only a short corner of the property.
I wonder if the Ararat film will reach the argentinean cinema´s. Lots of armenians live here and it would be important. The problem about is the low price of the argentinean peso. Maybe is not a benefit to bring the film here. I wish Miramax could bring it here. We are eager to see it!!!
Hot days are coming. Policemen are getting ready for next 20th December. One year ago, a chaos started in the center of the city. It was the 20th December when the president left the goverment and lots of argentineans went to face the policemen in goverment building at the center of Buenos Aires. More than 20 people died. So one year after people are scared if something happens again.
It was the second half of the last century. In Buenos Aires, armenians were called TURCOS (TURKS) because in the ID papers of the genocide survivors was written OTTOMAN EMPIRE CITIZEN. One of the ARG-MENIOS that changed that was MARTIN KARADAGIAN. He created the wrestling TV show in Buenos Aires. He became a legend. And the important thing was that he was called Martín, EL ARMENIO (Martín, the armenian). The show was called Titanes en el Ring. Now all the rights are managed by Martíns daughter Paulina Karadagian. The show was the top of the TV ratings in the 70´s. Other warrior of the Titan´s Show was the armenian ARARAT. A huge man!!! hahaha
Well, i think Martin deserves a place in the hall of fame of armenians. Try any internet searcher and you will find lots of things about him. After him, the argentinean mass, low, middle, and high classes realized that the Armenian is not a turk...
Anyway in turkish, Karadagian means: THE SON OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN.
Mystic, huh?



















































































































































































































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