Based on a story that I have been hearing these days, of the unfulfillment and absence of some civil servants before their commitment to the community. John Elvis Vera S. Once upon a time, in an isolated village, a lone cattle farmer had a breeding Bull. All of […]
In Focus
In Focus
Immigrant music
I met her on a Friday night. She was helping at a youth project in inner London, to which she had been invited by a mutual friend who was a youth worker. Steve Latham She ran some ice-breaker games with games to loosen the kids up, for the […]
The illustrators of life
“There is too much blood; too much violence”, Albert Camus. I had thought that I would start the year with good memories and nostalgia. However, the Charlie Hebdo massacre has brought back memories of when, in the late 80s, Castaño’s paramilitaries shot down ‘JUCO’ militants – a Communist Youth group […]
Words to remember Clarice Lispector
Writing, says Lispector, is not knowing what’s coming next. To find out, we throw another word out, as bait: which words will take the bait, if indeed any? Or will nothing follow but a void? Carlos Skliar* If it’s true that the world started with a yes, wrote […]
Experience and prejudices
A colleague of mine was telling me how she felt awkward speaking to her university tutor, who is a famous academic in the world of sociology. She left me to ponder whether a person’s place within social “hierarchy’”is the only factor in forming relationships with others. Mabel Encinas […]
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