Joe Higgins - Motorcycle Diaries
Yesterday evening, Joe Higgins a leading member of the Irish Socialist Party and the Committee for a Workers International gave a press conference in Santiago.
The Press Conference took place at 19.00 hours, in the TallerSol Cultural Centre, in the ‘Barrio Brasil’ in downtown Santiago - a well known rendezvous for artists, filmmakers and cine and arts lovers.
Joe explained that the team of the Irish language (Gaelic) TV was in Chile filming about the current political and social situation in Latinamerica, following the journey of Che Guevara through the continent. But Joe Higgins, in the name of all his team, also expressed his solidarity with Elena Varela, the Chilean journalist and author of ‘Newen Mapuche’(Mapuche Strength), who was arrested while she was filming another project about the struggle of the Mapuche people. The Irish TV team requested the immediate release of Elena Varela and her film material. Joe announced the launch of an international solidarity campaign, with this purpose, with the participation of the organizations and members of the Committee for a Workers International. source cwi
August 18th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Joe used to ride two wheels pre Dail Eireann days. He’d travel all over the place in all weathers. I think it was a honda 90, Matt Wayne has fond memories of getting a backer on it when he was a kid.
I spoke to Joe before he headed off, and he said that he wont be trying to cover the Ruta del Che on two wheels, from my own experience trying to cover some of those roads on 4 wheels is deadly enough (not Dublin deadly). Especially the road from La Paz to Coiroco this has to be the worst road in the world outside of Chinas (Lanzhou to Xiahe)