The Soccer War: There will be no paradise

As we know thw writer, he likes to write about wars; a little to much in my opinion which I don´t consider bad, but risky. I say this becasue once more Kapuscinski has gne to another country to be at a war, in this case in Cyprus in a war between turks and greeks. Not mattering that he doesn´t know nothing about Cyprus, he decides to go.

Something very particular from a war is that it may leave people homeless or without a job, and still they are the ones that fight and get killed. "Powerful, massively built peasants with angular heads and black, closely-cropped hair. They are unemployed. The war has cut them off from work and deprived them of their fields" (pg. 206). This is what Kapuscinki is dealing with, and a part that is very funny is the instant that they confuse them and hand him a microphone to talk about the situation. Then we see that in this case, is not like the other wars because o thing Kapuscinski says. " I have seen much misfortune in my life and here I see more" (pg. 207). This is an impact for me because Europe is like the richest continent in earth and in Cyprus is the worst the author has seen. He talks about it´s beautiful views, and landscapes, but this is just a cruel way of living. This war has converted in an unliving hell for everyone. They can´t go out by themselves and everything, at everytime, is dangerous. "The girls cannot walk alone; their mothers or grandmothers accompany them. The cannot look around, because that is in bad taste." (pgs. 211-212). This is the situatuion in Cyprus. Nobody does anything in reagrds to the UN or even its government. It seems to be that there will be no paradise in Cyprus again.