From BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here. On the day of Gabriel García Márquez’s farewell, it was hot in Mexico City. For hours the sun persistently beat down on thousands of people who patiently waited to say goodbye to the writer, but later the climate changed mood and suddenly the muggy heat […]
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Article by Carolina Robino published online at BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here One of the things that has most interested British journalists that are covering the earthquake which devastated the north of Chile on Tuesday is why people don’t run in terror while objects fall around them. Other colleagues from the BBC, […]
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This article by Daniel Pardo from BBC Mundo explores the reasons behind the prevalence of queues in modern day Venezuela. Below is my English translation. 350 metres. That’s how long the main queue is to enter the Red Abasto Bicentenario supermarket in the Terrazas del Ávila housing development in Caracas. Added to this queue is another one of cars, twice […]
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