MARIO Viegas Carrascalao is a man of all eras on the Loro Sa'e soil. He is a living witness to the road traveled by the small country formerly called East Timor: from a country initially colonized by the Portuguese, abandoned suddenly without a second thought, caught in a bloody civil war, being occupied by Indonesia, to finally becoming a free, independent country. Not just a witness, he was also a player in all these different times—a