The most difficult task in this expedition that instantaneously absorbs and radiates everything that is captivated worldwide by electronics, is to break the tears of emotion that every minute want to fall due to the magnitude of beauty and tenderness that take possession of me. Nevertheless, I ought to break these tears, or I won’t be able to speak or sing.

Popular culture and economic solidarity are the principal themes of “Teia” (Web) - the Brazilian Cultural Network, launched April 5 by Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil with much festive celebration. The event, which runs to April 9, unites thousands of representatives of Brazilian popular culture, organizers of cultural events and entrepreneurs in fair commerce.

In the countryside of Amazon, the battery operated radios have resisted as the predominant means of communication among communities where electricity hasn’t arrived yet. But the presence of TV is growing fast, due to accessible prices of TV sets and rechargeable car batteries.

From here we can already see Macapá, because we’ve just entered the bay. It is thrilling to watch our city approach after 20-odd days navigating through river labyrinths in this extraordinary planet called the Amazon…

Aboard Navegar Amazônia there is a nomadic couple: Fabrício and Krithika Canto, who travel with their little daughter Raven around the world. Fabrício is Brazilian (gaúcho, born in Rio Grande do Sul), Krithika, Indian and Raven, German. Krithika and Raven only speak William Shakespeare’s language. Fabrício, who speaks Luiz de Camões’ language, explains what brought him to Navegar Amazônia.

We are reaching the end of one more big expedition of Navegar Amazônia, this project that fills our eyes and hearts with truth and beauty. The Argonauts of Navegar lived intensely a kind of fraternity, along these long days of intimacy and work. The eccentricities from each one reduced, noblesse oblige, in order to give space to something new, wonderful and touching: the meeting with this beautiful and proud crowd from the waters.