With 50 years performing and being politically committed, it is extraordinary that he is not well-known in Europe. He was imprisoned in 1977 during the dictatorship in Brazil, and didn’t record any music for 10 years afterwards. At the 1974 concert, he had read a satirical poem about a chick (pinto). ‘Pinto’ is also Brazilian slang for penis, and was the name of a member of the military government. After the show, many people were arrested.
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Martha Suarez: For her children
With her life already well established in London, she hopes to one day move back to Colombia. Taylor Zambrano When she was younger, Martha found that with getting older came many more responsibilities, including some that made being in school harder. There was a lot of stress in […]
Ángela Camacho, pride in Latin America
She lived for seven years in the United Kingdom without papers, hiding her identity and origin. Today, free of any restraints, she teaches her son and other Latinos in London how to survive in hostile and discriminatory environments. Marcos Ortiz F. Ángela Camacho gives off Latin Americanness. So […]
Latin American identity: diaspora and recognition
. They are formed in the convergence and divergence of Latin American culture with different cultures. This relationship with the “other” is simultaneously of acceptance and rejection. The diasporas have to invent their own identity which is different from the old identity.
On the roofs of La Candelaria
The people of this neighbourhood in Bogota and the nomadic tourists observe, by surprise, when they look up into the sky, the figures in glass and latex of Jorge Olave. Armando Orozco Tovar This neighbourhood, old and located in the centre of the capital of Colombia, is […]















