This video clip went kind of viral a couple of months ago. A young fresa (stuck-up) woman from Guadalajara makes the outrageous confession that she is going to vote for the leftist presidential frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) despite being a niña bien (rich girl) from a conservative, Catholic family who always votes for the right-wing […]
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Mexico’s presidential election is coming up on July 1, with four candidates battling it out to succeed Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for a six-year term starting December. Third time candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has a commanding lead in most polls and barring a catastrophe — including electoral fraud — looks […]
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The Raised Fist You are from the place where you pick up the garbage. Where two bolts of lightning fall in the same place. Because you saw the first, you wait for the second. And you’re still here. Where the earth opens and people come together. You arrived late again: You’re alive because you’re unpunctual, […]
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This is a translation I did some time ago of a short story by a Spanish writer David Roas for the Latin American literature in translation project Palabras Errantes. Well, the universe is everything, and if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart, and that will be the end of everything. What has […]
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Yeah, you know I’ve been watching you for a while now I’ve gotta dance with you today I saw your look was calling me Show me the path I’m on You, you’re the magnet and I’m the metal I’m getting closer and hatching a plan Just thinking about it gets my pulse racing […]
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On Friday evening I passed Plaza Santo Domingo, just a couple of blocks from where I live, and encountered a veritable tent city. Hundreds of teachers had set up camp all across the plaza which is located directly opposite the headquarters of the Secretariat of Public Education. Teachers from some of Mexico´s poorest states had […]
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Last year I translated a short story by Cuban writer Odette Alonso for the Palabras Errantes project ´Writing Lesbian Desire´. It has just been published. The original title in Spanish is ´Con la Boca Abierta´. Below is an extract, click through to the Palabras Errantes site to read the story in its entirety in the […]
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Below is a translation from the Portuguese of an article from Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo. The article was written by Tatiana Freitas. This is actually my first ever translation from Portuguese, a language that I don´t actually know as such but can largely understand – at least in its written form – because […]
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A deviation here from the regular focus on Latin America. Earlier this year, I completed a translation of the play Bangkok by Spanish playwright Antonio Morcillo Lopez. The play won the prestigious SGAE theatre prize, Morcillo Lopez’s second win, and has been performed in various cities of Spain. Here is a link to an article […]
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Bolivia lost its access to the Pacific Ocean during the War of the Pacific towards the end of the 19th century. Now, in the wake of Chile’s victory over Argentina in the final of the Copa America comes this satirical article by Roy Bobadilla. Read the original in Spanish at the site eldeforma.com. Bolivia obtains […]
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