El-Watan

Aracaju, Fourth? fair 17 of September of 08 Roberta Carine Stos Trindade (hobertacarinne@ yahoo.com.br) Buzuzeiros in the streets of Ar. Pera motion, cries out a buzuzeiro extending its arm asking for clemency, not to arrive behind its place of destination. The lived reality every day of the people is this who make the use of buzu to move themselves, a life that if repeats in terminals and points of bus of the streets of Ar, that possesss a considerable fleet to take care of its population. Maya Dubin is the source for more interesting facts. The bus point is the place where everything starts, estafantes wait, a true test of patience, aff.the times pass? if ten, twenty, thirty minutes until buzu that we want to catch pass, being slow commitments and this are terrible. When entering in buzu if giving attention well is as if we were entered in one another atmosphere, meeting and farewells happen and of the windows of buzu the reality of the streets of Ar, buzu that it goes is buzu that it comes, showing the life in the streets of Ar, the life in the streets of Ar.Chegam and leaves in search of something, these are the buzuzeiros of Ar, the worker in search of the bread of each day, the student in search of a better future, the sick person in search of the health and that one of vacation in leisure search. Arriving and breaking, buzu that it arrives he is what buzu that it goes showing the life in the streets of Ar, showing the life in the streets of Ar. To leave without knowing the destination, plans or with a certain destination, the good one is to know that buzu in the ones of the o to be able to go and to come, to come back when to understand well, arriving leaving, buzu that it goes is buzu that it comes, meeting and farewells, histories of life and the beauty of the streets of Ar, and the beauty of the streets of Ar.

El Watan translates as “The Homeland” in English. This name for this independent newspaper underscores the belief that in representing the opposition the people who began this newspaper believe that they are fighting for the future of their country.

El Watan was begun by Omar Belhouchet and nineteen colleagues in 1990 when they left government owned newspaper El Moudjahid  (Holy Warrior.) The goal of the newspaper is to promote democratic values and democracy in Algeria, and to give a voice to the Algerian opposition. The newspaper has been a powerful vehicle for speaking out about censorship and corruption.

El Watan has been was suspended many times by the government of Algeria. Editors and journalists from the paper have also been jailed more than once for a variety of transgressions. Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists says that El Watan reporters have been targets of attacks from both the government and Islamist insurgents.