When I abbreviate this city, it is to speak as one with millions of defeños– EL DF. What I breathe in this city, I do not really know. My larynx admits oxygen and all manner of airborne particles – It doesn’t seem to bother me much. When I cough in this city, some […]
Read moreAustralian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, the only woman in the Tony Abbott led conservative government’s cabinet, is in Mexico City this week. Earlier in the week she held talks with the foreign ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, Korea and Turkey. This group of nations, known as MIKTA, was formed last year to cooperate on a wide range of […]
Read moreThis is a selection of Cuban political slogans that I saw during my time on the communist island in 2011. All photos are my own. THE BATTLE OF IDEAS CONTINUES FATHERLAND OR DEATH WE ARE IN A DECISIVE MOMENT OF OUR HISTORY. TYRANNY HAS BEEN DEFEATED. THE HAPPINESS IS IMMENSE. HOWEVER, THERE IS STILL MUCH […]
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Chile is having a very difficult month. At the start of the month there was the large earthquake affecting the north of the country and now the beautiful port city of Valparaiso, Chile’s bohemian cultural heart, is battling a fire that has left a death toll of 12, an estimated 2,500 destroyed homes and 11,000 […]
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This short piece of fiction I wrote has a few references to Latin America so I thought I would publish it here. I have been doing quite a lot of translation recently but primarily from Spanish to English, so I decided I would translate this to Spanish. The photo is of Oaxaca, a beautiful colonial city […]
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Article by Carolina Robino published online at BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here One of the things that has most interested British journalists that are covering the earthquake which devastated the north of Chile on Tuesday is why people don’t run in terror while objects fall around them. Other colleagues from the BBC, […]
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Article from BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here. The president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, presented a new 50 peso (approx. $US 7) banknote dedicated to the ‘Islas Malvinas’ to mark the 32nd anniversary of the war with the United Kingdom over the Atlantic Ocean archipelago, known as the Falkland Islands by […]
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Callejon de Hamel – probably the most colourful area of Havana, Cuba. Great murals! I visited late one afternoon in 2011 and had the place pretty much to myself.
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This translation comes from an article published at BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here. MASSIVE GENERAL STRIKE IN PARAGUAY COMES TO AN END With a closing event in the central square, in front of the national parliament in the Paraguayan capital, a massive general strike that paralysed the country this Wednesday concluded. […]
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