I woke up this morning wondering what the best way to die would be. I’d been reading about it in Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, and Che himself had read about it in Jack London’s To Build a Fire. I’d discovered London’s book a while back being […]
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José Barahona… In Lisbon I remembered you
What is it like for a Latino man with few resources to look for a new life in a different continent? Even a common language plays tricks. And when things are hard, do you stop calling your family? These are the issues in this new film between fiction and documentary.
Towards Latin American multiculturalism
Proposals like the plurinational state in Evo Morales’ Bolivia and the incorporation of elements of the indigenous world-view like ‘sumac causay‘ (good living) in Latin American political discourse, marks a shift toward political multiculturalism in Latin America. .Claudio Chipana G. . Multicultural reality is nothing new, it not a […]
José, my homeless friend
We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we discover in the empty spaces of our lives that the time we should have given to our lost friend has slipped away.
The globe… in the hands of a few of the wealthy
Not long ago, the 200 largest global transnational companies accounted for 29% of world economic activity. Africa and Latin America are not on that list and Asian tigers account for less than 1%. Roberto F. Campos We now accept the very well-known saying, “the rich are increasingly rich?” […]
















