Sans shame, you copulate under shop awnings, in parks, down alleys then trot off for post-coital taco scraps on Mexico City corners Slumbering in sunny plazas you dream while fleas run amok across your fur and screw into your rabid flesh I saw you snarl White of your eyes and unknown intentions in the streets […]
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I love the small towns of Latin America and one of my favourites is Todos Santos Cuchumatán in the western highlands of Guatemala. The surrounding mountain scenery is spectacular, the air crisp and fresh and the culture of the Mam people is well preserved in town. Virtually all the native inhabitants of the village wear […]
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Cusco in Peru, the ancient capital of the Incan Empire is another enchanting Latin American city. The tiled version of ‘Himno al Cusco’, (Cusco Anthem) adorned with the city’s flag and coat of arms, is on display in the city centre for all to enjoy. As far as I can see there are no other […]
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Nicolás Maduro is now the president of Venezuela after defeating Henrique Capriles in Sunday’s presidential election. An extremely close win by Maduro in this special election – currently not accepted and being contested by Capriles – will allow him to complete the six year term originally won by Hugo Chavez. Campaigning heavily on the legacy […]
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Homelessness is a complex problem facing people all over the world. I try to understand a little more about individual cases of homelessness by sharing conversations from time to time with folk I come across on the street. The gentleman featured is an ‘indigente’ that I met on the streets of the historic centre of […]
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Latin America boasts innumerable beautiful colonial cities. Cartagena is spectacular. Panama City has a dilapidated charm. Havana is a grand old dame. The list goes on. The historic core of Quito, Ecudaor’s high altitude capital, is as beautiful as any. Plazas -grand and quaint. Ornate churches. Striking monuments. Winding steep cobbled streets. They are all […]
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Wandering the streets of the small town of Rurrenabaque in Bolivia I spotted this scene. I grabbed my camera to capture the juxtaposition; woman and monkey, back to back. As the shutter clicked she sensed my presence and swiveled her head over her left shoulder. I got the second shot and a few nice minutes […]
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Chicken buses – the epithet comes from the possibility that you might be seated next to one – are the mainstay of travel in Central America. These old American Bluebird school buses, often repainted in the most garish of colours and adorning such adages as ‘Jesus Christ is the saviour’ and ‘Jehovah will show the […]
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I can’t remember exactly where in Cuba I took this photograph. Propaganda/ the communist party message is everywhere across the island nation. The translation is of a speech that Fidel Castro made to the Cuban people on May 1 (International Workers’ Day) in Plaza de la revolución (Revolution Square) in Havana. Cuba, now under the […]
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It’s a bright Sunday morning and I am sitting in the shade on the fringes of a pedestrian thoroughfare engrossed in the sordid Parisian world of Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’. I raise my gaze to see Sunday strollers meander by. Parishioners stream from the colonial era church, momentarily coagulating the flow of passers-by. A […]
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