Here’s the second instalment of my brief Latin American food guide – this time L-Z. It has been a bit more challenging to come up with a food for every letter here and I allowed myself some liberty. I’ve enjoyed compiling the guide, I hope you enjoy reading. Lechón: It’s hard to beat roast pork, […]
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Tracking in one of the little mini-vans that ply the very few routes that chicken buses don’t -or do- but supplement or complement them anyway, I headed further and deeper into the Guatemalan highlands to the Ixil Triangle – all the way to Chajul where the folk speak their traditional Mayan tongue, Ixil, and I had myself […]
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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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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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