Burkina Faso

Imagine living an unpleasant experience. You may relate the account with loved ones. You may receive support and feel efforts at understanding. You understand that what is happening to you is not happening to them and you are grateful for their support.

When a city experiences a downturn, maybe the major employer went out of business and there were significant job losses with ripples of economic destruction that were felt across town. People in that urban environment may look for work elsewhere. They understand that when bad things happen, they do not happen universally.

It never rains everywhere on earth all on at once.

The experience that you are having in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is not the experience being lived throughout the world. Burkina Faso was known as “Hell on Earth” for many years by those familiar with the country. Burkina Faso has a new leader and seems posed to make decisions that benefit the citizens at the cost of other previously empowered interests. We use this extreme example to demonstrate that while life is declining in some places, it is rising in others.

Uruguay is doing what Uruguay does. Stable, slow, steady, tranquilo. No exicting sky scrapers are shooting up, though there certainly in a rash of building residential towers along the Southern Coast it is nothing akin to what one can see in Asia. Uruguay is going it’s own way. The way it was and will be.

While Uruguay offers a return to normal and shelter from the rain that falls across the Global North, the West, those listed nations, it should be seen accurately and for what it is. It is a unique nation that offers a unique living experience. An agricultural powerhouse for it’s size that doesn’t resort to methods that detract from animal well being is made possible by the tremendous resource that is the Pampa, large grassland on which the nation rests.

Chaos and disorder is not happening everywhere. Uruguay offers you a culture that rhymes with the one of your home nation and a chance to refocus on what matters in life. It’s true, Uruguay lacks the economic exuberance of Sao Paolo. The pulsating rhythm of a booming South East Asian nation is not found here nor is the corruption found elsewhere in the world.

Uruguay is the country club. Not the night club. The unpleasant experience of those lived elsewhere in the world is not found here. While the literal rain falls year round and the grass is always green, the metaphorical rain is not falling. Life continues here as it has before. For good and for bad, we live according to the natural rhythms of the Pampa and are missing out on what you unfortunate many are living in the North. Let us help you get here, back to normal. Back to calm.

For those wanting more excitement, there is always Burkina Faso.

Marco