MEXICO, mexico city, PHOTO ESSAY, PHOTOGRAPHY, Uncategorized

BOLÍVAR Y CHIMALPOPOCA

Corner of Bolívar and Chimalpopoca streets in Colonia Obrera where a textile factory collapsed in the September 19 earthquake. 16 people were rescued from the rubble but a further 21 died. Most of the victims were seamstresses including Central American and Taiwanese women. There was some conflict after 3 days of search efforts between authorities […]

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ALCOHOL, BRAZIL, LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, TRANSLATION, Uncategorized

BRAZIL´S BELOVED CACHACA TURNS 500 WITHOUT CRACKING THE WORLD MARKET (TRANSLATION)

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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MEXICO, PHOTOGRAPHY, Uncategorized

CORNERS OF THE CITY # 4: HE WHO JUMPS

The informal economy of Mexico City is a broad church.  Hundreds of thousands of individuals look for their unique way to earn enough pesos to survive each day; selling gum or earphones on the metro, frying quesadillas on a kerbside griddle, riding a bicycle with a steel vat full of tamales attached, washing windscreens, selling […]

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