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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El Salvador is probably not be at the top of your list for your next vacation. It is a country better known to most for the ferocious fighting of the civil war years (1980-92) rather than the stunning scenery and generous warm-hearted people. Repression from a military regime, inequality and poverty all contributed to the […]
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Day 1: In the sweaty mid-afternoon tropical heat I board. Hammocks are strung up; side by side, above and below. This will be home for the next three days and nights as the wooden vessel wends its way upstream on the Amazon River from steamy Belem, just below the equator in the northeast of Brazil, […]
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‘La hoja de coca no es droga’ – The coca leaf is not a drug. Emblazoned on t-shirts in Bolivian markets. As the poppy is to heroin, the grape to wine, or hops and barley to beer so is the correlation between the coca leaf and cocaine. This article will focus on this […]
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