PICNOS TSHOMBÉ
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Moisé Tshombe : leader of the Katanga's secession (DRC, formerly Zaire) in the 60's during the country's independence from Belgian colonists. After being charged with the murder of anti colonialist democratically elected leader Patrice Lumumba and having a politically eventful life, he went into exile in Franco's Spain. Once there a bizarre international plot led by the countries that used to be his allies (USA, England and UN), weaves his abduction following a pretended business trip to Mallorca. He ended up imprisoned in a military camp in Algeria where he died two years later.
By allowing Tshombé settle in Madrid not as a refugee but as active politician in complete oblivion of his criminal past and unashamedly into his equally criminal plans, Spain collaborated on the survival of imperialism in Africa in favor of Belgium, USA and multinational mining companies in Katanga, as well as the serious violation of human rights of the Congolese population. Not only he had the support of Francisco Franco but with part of the propaganda of the regime media (ABC, Arriba, ..)
Even today, 50 years after these political struggles of life and death, when tragedy of the DRC continues unabated, the role played by Spain is hidden. By looking to the past, to the origins, to my own History , I try to understand the present, the imbalance in the world order, the consequences. Top manta: immigrants (mostly Africans) sell Chinese cheap copies of luxury products placing them on top of a white sheet (manta).As this is illegal they have to hide and run away from the police ,living with fear and anguish.
«La politique et l'art (...) construit des fictions, ce est à dire des assemblages de matériaux de signes et d'images, de la relation entre ce que nous voyons et ce que nous disons, entre ce que nous faisons et que nous pouvons faire?" Jacques Rancière
Moisé Tshombe : leader of the Katanga's secession (DRC, formerly Zaire) in the 60's during the country's independence from Belgian colonists. After being charged with the murder of anti colonialist democratically elected leader Patrice Lumumba and having a politically eventful life, he went into exile in Franco's Spain. Once there a bizarre international plot led by the countries that used to be his allies (USA, England and UN), weaves his abduction following a pretended business trip to Mallorca. He ended up imprisoned in a military camp in Algeria where he died two years later.
By allowing Tshombé settle in Madrid not as a refugee but as active politician in complete oblivion of his criminal past and unashamedly into his equally criminal plans, Spain collaborated on the survival of imperialism in Africa in favor of Belgium, USA and multinational mining companies in Katanga, as well as the serious violation of human rights of the Congolese population. Not only he had the support of Francisco Franco but with part of the propaganda of the regime media (ABC, Arriba, ..)
Even today, 50 years after these political struggles of life and death, when tragedy of the DRC continues unabated, the role played by Spain is hidden. By looking to the past, to the origins, to my own History , I try to understand the present, the imbalance in the world order, the consequences. Top manta: immigrants (mostly Africans) sell Chinese cheap copies of luxury products placing them on top of a white sheet (manta).As this is illegal they have to hide and run away from the police ,living with fear and anguish.
«La politique et l'art (...) construit des fictions, ce est à dire des assemblages de matériaux de signes et d'images, de la relation entre ce que nous voyons et ce que nous disons, entre ce que nous faisons et que nous pouvons faire?" Jacques Rancière
ISBN: 978-84-09-03090-3
Publisher: Landskrona Foto/Bradfield Books /Witty Kiwi
Publisher: Landskrona Foto/Bradfield Books /Witty Kiwi
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