<![CDATA[Vltchek's World in Words and Images - WORLD POLITICAL/TRAVEL BLOG]]>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:23:32 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Massive update in progress]]>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:10:57 GMThttps://andrevltchek.weebly.com/world-politicaltravel-blog/massive-update-in-progress"Massive update in progress"​]]><![CDATA[Bangkok, Thailand]]>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:00:00 GMThttps://andrevltchek.weebly.com/world-politicaltravel-blog/bangkok-thailand7598590November 24-27

My favorite creature in Bangkok - enormous “babi” - a pig. She is a neighborhood pig, lives in a park near old ferry stop. She eats everything, cleans everything, sleeps a lot. People love her. They talk to her, read on benches near her, even take selfies! She looks more like a hippo than a pig...
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Just a brief visit to Cambodia, to reconnect with its history and to get over horrible jet lag.
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Yes it can be done, but it is beastly. Flying time from Buenos Aires to Bangkok is over 24 hours, with short stoppver in asao Paulo and changes of planes in Istanbul...
]]><![CDATA[Leaving Chile]]>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:00:00 GMThttps://andrevltchek.weebly.com/world-politicaltravel-blog/leaving-chileTallest mountain in Western Hemisphere - Acancagua
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My Chile... And another marathon. Great publishing house LOM translated my non fiction book and it will soon go to print (in 2018). I spoke at LOM in Santiago and at Universidad Austral, in a beautiful city of Valdivia. I also gave two radio interviews, visited my friends in Talca and reconnected with Valparaiso. Will be back soon!

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​Santiago de Chile photos:
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Valdivia photos:
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Eternal Valparaiso photos:
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Talca photos:
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Back in South America!

Argentina is in turmoil, suffering from neoliberal rule of Macri government.

This time I worked in Buenos Aires and Rosario.
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Working and dealing with several personal issues in Paris.
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]]><![CDATA[Lebanon]]>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMThttps://andrevltchek.weebly.com/world-politicaltravel-blog/lebanon3878102October 16-31, 2017

I was just sitting with my editor in the studio, editing two of my latest films: Faces of North Korea, and my film with John Cobb. Working day and night...
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With my editor, Mohamad, in Beirut.
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Editing a documentary film about my conversations with John Cobb, Jr.
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Mohamad, my editor.
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Back to Indonesia, back to combat zone...

Filming in Borneo. Total destruction. Poisoned rivers. Poisonous gold mining. Palm oil plantations. Misery.

And in Jakarta, jihadi anti-Communist demonstration. As if not enough that religions here already murdered millions of left wingers, Communists, intellectuals...

Then visiting my friend in Yogyakarta - a great Indonesian Communist painter Djokopekik.
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Aerial view of devastated Borneo
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Jihadis' anti-communist demonstration in Jakarta
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Gold mining operation
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Jihadis' anti-communist demonstration in Jakarta
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Great Indonesian painter Djokopekik
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