They started last Thursday on Montevideo Beach and will ring out for seven days of ritual day and night, even in the privacy of home.
It is a response to the appeal of the Atapac group and the Federal Foundation of Avrumbandistas (IFA), as explained to El Observador by “Mai” Susana Andrade, who has been proclaimed as a brilliant citizen by the municipality of Montevideo.
He explained that the Atapac Group and the Federal Foundation of Avrumbandistas (IFA) conducted an “invitation to the people of Avrumbandistas from all parts of Uruguay” and were joined by “several temples”.
Umbanda is a religion of Brazilian origin, in which the heritage of African beliefs brought to America by slaves in colonial times is mixed with Christian elements and indigenous traditions.
It extends to neighboring countries such as Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.
African sects, popular Catholicism, and spiritualism can define his syncretism.
“So many drummers and drummers are brought together that the hat rites and songs of praise never cease, and I pray Orixas, Capoclos, Pretas, Britos filhos, Exos and Bombajeras never stop”. “There are people from different strands as well,” said Andrade, the former alt MP for the Broad Front.
In the invitations there is rain, the absence of which aggravates the water deficit and has in small quantities the dam of Paso Severino, the main source of supply for the capital and its suburbs.
To alleviate the crisis and “stretch” the stocks, the State Sanitary Works Department agreed to raise the salinity limit for the water, which is now mined near the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, whose mouth to the east merges with the Atlantic Ocean.
The water that comes out of the taps in this city is “not drinkable, but drinkable,” as defined by Environment Minister Robert Bouvier.
For her part, the Minister of Public Health, Karina Rando, recommended that pregnant women, children and people suffering from various diseases consume bottled water, which is not within the reach of all Uruguayans.
The water crisis has political repercussions and is another point of confrontation between the government, the opposition and the citizen sector.
But far from politics, the drumbeat and prayers of these days ask for water for all.
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