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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Palabras Errantes (in English – Wandering Words) is an online literary translation project that has been making contemporary Latin American literature accessible to an anglophone audience since 2011. You can read more about the project objectives here. Palabras Errantes has presented a wide range of translation projects focusing on different voices and regions of Latin America. […]
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I mentioned Chilean band Los Tres in the post I did last week of the Soda Stereo translation. I enjoy completing translations of songs. Often I learn a new Spanish word or two or three. So this week we will head west from Argentina to the elongated narrow limb that is Chile. The version of […]
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Time for another song translation. Soda Stereo are rock en español royalty. I lived in Patagonian Chile in 1997 as an exchange student and Soda Stereo along with the Chilean band Los Tres quickly became favourites. Sadly, the lead singer Gustavo Cerati has been in a coma for over three years since suffering a stroke […]
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Santa Clara, Cuba is the adopted city of Cuban revolutionary hero Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. It was also the site of a decisive battle in the revolutionary struggle against Batista. As such the city is full of monuments to the revolution and to Che including this homage to some of his most famous words. While […]
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Cafe Tacuba is a Mexican band and this is their homage to the Mexico City Metro. In case you didn’t know, the food and goods referenced in the song highlight the ubiquity of ‘los vagoneros’ – the roaming vendors who turn the metro into a mobile marketplace. The version I’ve embedded below is from their 1995 […]
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I have a semi-completed article/story on Cuba that I hope to publish here sometime. In the meantime here are some more wise words from the mouth of Fidel Castro.. THE PARTY IS NOT PRIVILEGE, IT IS SACRIFICE
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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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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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I haven’t been to Sao Paulo, the other Latin America megalopolis. It’s definitely in my future plans. Wikipedia states that it is the largest city by population in the Americas edging out Mexico City although the order is reversed when the population of the metropolitan areas is counted. The piece I have translated is by […]
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