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1 | How To Miss A Coup d'Etat | Ahoana No Tsy Anatrehana Fanonganam-Panjakana |
2 | The Red House (L) and the Old Police Headquarters (R) in Port of Spain, Trinidad. | Ny Trano Mena (Havia) sy ny Foibe Tranainin'ny Polisy (Havanana) ao amin'ny Seranan-tsambon'i Espaina, Trinidad. |
3 | The Red House was stormed by insurgents of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen on July 27, 1990. | Nobodoin'ireo mpihoko avy amin'ny Jamaat-al-Muslimeen ny 27 Jolay 1990. |
4 | The Old Police Headquarters were also damaged by a car bomb. | Simba noho ny fiara voasesika baomba ihany koa ny Foibe Tranainin'ny Polisy. |
5 | Photo by David Stanley (CC BY 2.0). | Sary avy tamin'i David Stanley (CC BY 2.0). |
6 | The original version of this piece was published on the Caribbean Free Radio blog on July 27, 2010, the 20th anniversary of the attempted coup d'état perpetrated by members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen in Trinidad and Tobago. | Navoaka tamin'ny bilaogin'ny Free Radio ao Karaiba ny fitantaràna voalohany tamin'ity lahatsoratra ity, ny 27 Jolay 2010, fitsingerenan'ny faha 20 taona saika nisian'ny fanonganam-panjakana nataon'ny mpikambana tamin'ny Jamaat-al-Muslimeen tao Trinite sy Tobago. |
7 | Start by leaving the country a few days before the event (not that you know it's going to happen). | Nanomboka tamin'ny fialàna ny firenena andro vitsy nialoha ilay tranga (tsy hoe fantatrao fa hitranga io akory). |
8 | About five days is good-say around July 22, 1990. | Dimy andro eo dia tsara - ataovy hoe manodidina ny 22 Jolay 1990. |
9 | Make sure the place you're going is far from any established West Indian community. | Ataovy azo antoka tsara hoe lavitra ny vondrom-piarahamonina misy ireo Indiana tandrefana ny toerana alehanao. |
10 | Northern California is a workable option. | Safidy afaka raisina tsara ny Kalifornia Avaratra. |
11 | On the morning of the event, sit down in your Trinidadian Stanford Medical School student friend's cottage in Menlo Park, type up a television script on said friend's boyfriend's Mac Plus computer, print it out and take it to a nearby copy shop. | Ny marainan'ilay zava-nitranga, mipetraha eo amin'ny tranokely fitoeran'ny mpianatra namanareo ao amin'ny Sekoly Fianarana ho Mpitsabo ao Stanford Trinidadiana any Menlo Park, manorata ny zavatra holazaina amin'ny televiziôna amin'ilay solosaina Mac Plus an'ny sipan'ilay namanao, avoahy an-taratasy ary ento ho eny amin'ny toeram-pivarotana fanaovana dika an-taratasy, izay akaiky eo. |
12 | From the shop, fax the script to your colleagues in Trinidad, who, later that day, will use it to shoot a segment of the television show you're working on together. | Ao amin'ilay toeram-pivarotana, alefaso “fax” ilay soratra ho any amin'ireo namanao any Trinite, izay, ny harivan'io andro io, hampiasa azy mba hanaovana ampahany iray aminà fandaharana amin'ny televiziôna izay iasanareo miaraka. |
13 | The act of faxing also inserts you-tenuously-into your colleagues' much more heroic narrative related to the event, though of course you don't know this at the time. | Mahatonga anao ho tafiditra ao anatin'ny fitantaràna mahery fo kokoa ataon'ny namanao mikasika ilay zavatra nitranga ny fandefasanao ilay “fax”, eny, marina fa tsy fantatrao izany amin'io fotoana io. |
14 | Take the train into San Francisco, trawl around the city like a tourist, then in the afternoon meet up with your friend in order to hitch a ride back to Menlo Park. | Mandraisa ny fiarandalamby ho any San Francisco, mivenjivenje eraky ny tanàna sahala amin'ny mpizahatany, avy eo ny hariva mifanaova fotoana amin'ny namanao mba hikarakaràna ny fiverenana ho any Menlo Park. |
15 | While sitting in the car in rush-hour gridlock on US-101, fiddle with the dial on the radio and happen upon a National Public Radio report about an attempted coup in your country. | Raha mbola ilay mipetraka ao anaty fiara iny, ao anatin'ny fitohanana amin'ny ora maha betsaka ny fifamoivoizana eny amin'ny lalambe US-101, lalaovy ny bokotra fanovaovàna ny radio, indro ny tatitry ny Radio Nasiônaly momba ny andrana fanonganam-panjakana tao amin'ny firenenao. |
16 | Marvel at the coincidence of your landing, just at that moment, upon a news report about a nation that would otherwise receive scant coverage in US news, even on public radio, but still await the jingle at the end of the report announcing that what you just heard was a comedy segment. | Mitanakà vava amin'ny fifanandrifian'ny fiverenanao, amin'izay fotoana izay mihitsy, amin'ny tatitra vaovao mahakasika firenena iray izay tsy mba faheno firy amin'ireo vaovao mandeha any Etazonia, na dia amin'ny radiom-panjakana aza, kanefa mbola miandry ilay feon-kira amin'ny faran'ilay tatitra milaza fa vao avy nandre ampahanà hatsikana ianao. |
17 | When, instead of a jingle, you hear another report about something bad happening in some other part of the world, freeze for a few seconds. | Rehefa injay ka eo amin'ny toeran'ny feon-kira farany, maheno tatitra hafa indray ianao mombanà zavatra ratsy miseho any amin'ny faritra sasany amin'izao tontolo izao, ary tsy mahahetsika ao anatin'ny segondra vitsy. |
18 | Then try to recall whether, five days before, there had been any sign or indication that something like this was going to happen. | Avy eo andramo ny mamerina miantso, mba ahitàna hoe dimy andro talohan'io ve, nisy famantarana na toromarika hoe hisy zavatra hitranga tahàka izany. |
19 | Decide that there hadn't. | Tapaho ny hevitra hoe tsy nisy mihitsy. |
20 | As it would be some years yet before either you or your friend-or most of the world's citizens-acquires a cell phone, sit impatiently in traffic until you get back to Menlo Park. | Satria taona vitsy aty aoriana vao samy manana finday daholo ianao sy ny namanao - na ny ankamaroan'ireo olon-tsotra maneran-tany - mipetraha tsindrin-daona ao anatin'ny fifamoivoizana mandra-pahatonganao any Menlo Park. |
21 | Once there, rush to the answering machine which is pulsating with voice messages. | Vao tonga any, mihazakazaha mankeny amin'ny milina fametrahana hafatra izay mampientanentana amin'ireo feo napetraka ho hafatra. |
22 | Be amused at the succinctness of your friend's Washington DC-based sister's message: “They had a coup! | Mihomeheza amin'ny hafatry ny rahavavin'ny namanao izay mipetraka any Washington DC: “Nisy Fanonganam-panjakana taty! |
23 | Call me!” | Antsoy aho!” |
24 | Wonder how all the Trinidadians on the west coast had managed to get hold of your friend's number. | Manontania tena momba izay fomba nahazoan'ireo Trinidadiana rehetra any amin'ny morontsiraka andrefana ny laharan-taribin'ny namanao. |
25 | Return calls. | Mamerena miantso. |
26 | Answer new calls that come in. | Valio ireo antso vaovao miditra. |
27 | Lament the fact that nobody has any real information. | Itaraino ny amin'ny hoe tsy misy manana vaovao matotra ny rehetra. |
28 | Even though the phone lines to Trinidad are perpetually busy, keep trying to get through to family, but make sure you have a list of questions prepared, as long distance calls aren't cheap and neither Skype nor the Magicjack has yet been invented. | Na dia sarotra azo aza matetika ny laharan-tariby mankany Trinite, andramo ihany ny maka vaovao any amin'ireo fianakaviana, fa hamarino tsara aloha hoe voaomanao ny lisitr'ireo fanontaniana, satria tsy mora ny saran'ny antso lavitra ary tsy mbola noforonina na ny Skype na ny Magicjack tamin'izany. |
29 | Lament the absence, in northern California, of a real West Indian community such as exists in New York or Washington D.C. or south Florida or even Atlanta, and discuss how this limits your access to the choicest rumours and to folks who know folks who had managed to get through to somebody in Trinidad who knows somebody who knows what's going on. Experience feelings of profound isolation. | Itaraino ny tsy fisian'ny vondrom-piarahamonina Indiana Tandrefana marina any Kalifornia Avaratra, sahala amin'ny misy any New York na Washington D.C. na Florida Atsimo na Atlanta, mba resaho ny fameran'izy io ny fahafahanao miditra hahare ireo siosio voafantina sy amin'ireo olona izay mahafantatra olona nahavita nahazo olona tany Trinite izay mahalala olona mahafantatra ny zava-mitranga marina. iaino ny fahatsapàna ho tena irery sy lavitra ny hafa tanteraka. |
30 | Keep the radio tuned to NPR. | Ajanony eo amin'ny NPR ny radio. |
31 | Make sure you tune in to an NPR report in which a journalist you know is interviewed in Port of Spain about the horrors to which your homeland is being subjected while sitting on the bonnet of a car in Stinson Beach, in the atmospheric Marin Headlands, looking out at the magnificent Pacific. | Hamarino tsara hoe mihaino tatitry ny NPR ianao izay misy mpanao gazety fantatrao anaovana tafatafa any amin'ny Seranan-tsambon'i Espaina, momba ireo zava-doza niseho tamin'ny firenenao, eo am-pipetrahana eo amin'ny tampon'ny fiara any Stinson Beach, ao anatin'ny rivo-dranomasin'i Marin Headlands, mitazana an'i Pasifika mahatalanjona. |
32 | Note it as one of the most bizarre juxatpositions of your life thus far. | Mariho io ho tahàka ny zavatra mifanandrify mahagaga indrindra amin'ny fiainanao mandrak'ankehitriny. |
33 | Leave California for New York. | Ilaozy ny ao Kalifornia ho any New York. |
34 | Wait it out there for what seems like-or may well be, as you don't yet record all your trips using as-yet-to-be-dreamed-of services like Dopplr and TripIt-weeks. | Andraso ao izay mety ho toy ny hoe herinandro maro - na mety ho izany mihitsy, satria tsy mbola nanao famandrihana ny dianao rehetra ianao tamin'ny fampiasàna ireo tolotra mbola ho nofinofisinao, toy ny Dopplr sy ny TripIt. |
35 | Watch, over and over again, that single, worrying image on CNN of the city of Port of Spain with a plume of smoke rising up from the middle of the city. | Jereo hatrany hatrany, ilay hany sary tokana mampiahiahy tamin'ny CNN an'ny tanànan'ny seranan-tsambon'i Espaina, miaraka amin'ilay setroka miakatra avy eo afovoan'ny tanàna. |
36 | Listen to the West Indian radio stations; talk to folks on the phone-but still feel you have no idea what's going on in your homeland, except that the insurgents have surrendered and there's now a curfew. | Henoy ireo onjam-peon'ny fampielezampeo amin'ny radio Indiana Andrefana; miresaha amin'ireo olona amin'ny antso an-telefaona - saingy ataovy tsapa ihany hoe tsy mahalala na inona na inona amin'ny zava-mitranga any amin'ny firenenao ianao, afa-tsy ny hoe nitolo-batana ireo mpanani-bohitra ary misy izao ny fetr'ora farany azo ivoahana ny trano. |
37 | Write letters (longhand, on paper, as you're still five years from getting an e-mail account) to friends in various places announcing that you might end up stranded in the US. | Manoràta taratasy maro (sora-tànana, amin'ny taratasy, satria dimy taona aty aoriana vao mahazo kaonty emailaka) amin'ireo namana amin'ny toerana maro samihafa, hilazàna amin'izy ireo fa mety ho tafahitsoka ao Etazonia ianao. |
38 | Be deeply envious of your two colleagues who were in fact shooting your script when news of the insurrection reached them, and who, with all other work brought to a standstill by the events, report that they've been venturing out with a camera to capture coup-related action. | Mitsiririta mafy ireo roa mpiara-miasa aminao izay teo am-panodinana ny “script”-nao fony tonga teo amin-dry zareo ilay vaovaonà fihokoana, ary tsy nisy asa hafa afaka nataony afa-tsy ilay zavatra nitranga, nitatitra hoe nivoaka tany ivelany niaraka tamin'ny fitaovana fanodinana horonantsary izy ireo mba hakàna ireo niseho nifandraika tamin'ilay fanonganam-panjakana. |
39 | Keep harassing the airline to put you on a flight back home. | Aza mitsahatra ny manindry tsy ankijanona ny orinasam-pitanterana mba hanome toerana anao amin'ny sidina miverina. |
40 | Settle eventually for one that connects in Miami, even though it means spending an awful night in Miami International Airport. | Makà amin'ny sidina izay mifandray amin'i Miami, na midika aza izany hoe tsy maintsy mandany alina iray mahatsiravina ao amin'ny Seranam-piaramanidina Iraisampirenena ao Miami. |
41 | Return to Trinidad. | Miverena any Trinite. |
42 | Fail to remember, 25 years later, who collected you at the airport, what you saw from the car on the way home, what you felt when you finally walked through the doors of the home you weren't sure you'd ever see again. | Tsy mahatadidy intsony, 25 taona aty aoriana, hoe iza no naka anao teny amin'ny seranam-piaramanidina, inona no itanao avy tao anatin'ny fiara teny amin'ny làlana nody tany an-trano, inona no tsapanao rehefa nanitsaka ny tokonam-baravaranao izay tsy noeritreretinao ho hitanao intsony ianao nony farany. |
43 | Wonder if 25 years is really that long, or if there's some other reason you've shoved those memories aside. | Manontania tena hoe lava tokoa ve izany 25 taona izany, na raha misy antony hafa, ho apetrakao anjorony ireo tsiaro ireo. |