Chile – Fake Flamenco

bilingual, En español, Mexico, Spanish Culture and Language, The Americas

Latin America: 3 Best and 3 Worst for Income Equality

3 Most and 3 Least Unequal Incomes For Latin America, there are several red flags in the World Inequality Database report for 2022. Covid has brought financial disparities into focus, many people have lost their jobs although the wealthiest have profited during the pandemic. Nations that we think of as prosperous like Mexico, Brazil and […]

history, Nature, Uruguay

Out of the Silence: After the Crash

Newspapers, books and a film have told the story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. However, Eduardo Strauch waited four decades to write his memoir of the days they spent high in the mountains on the edge of survival. In 2012, he published Desde el silencio (2012) along […]

history, Spanish Culture and Language

11 Women’s Faces on National Currency

What does the color and content of currency say about a country? What are the symbols we hold most dear? Who are our heroes? If we look at the banknotes of the United States, we see former presidents; Washington and Jefferson and founders like Franklin and Hamilton. All male, all Caucasian, all long gone. By […]

En español, Living Abroad

9/11 Far from Home

A day the earth stood still and CNN was the only channel to watch. I wrote this post in 2018, I am sharing it today because it still holds true. In my parents’ generation, it was where you were the days that President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Junior were shot. For those of […]

history, Spanish Culture and Language, The Americas

8th American Country with Marriage Equality

Happy Pride Month! Want some good news? LBGTQ rights are expanding in this hemisphere. May 26, 2020, Costa Rica became the eighth country in the continent of the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage. The Ticos, as they call themselves, are the first in Central America to provide marriage equality. The change has been in the […]

En español, Spanish Culture and Language, writing

4 Spanish Haiku Winners/Los 4 ganadores del concurso haiku

Deceptive simplicity is the cornerstone of haiku poetry. How much can we express in three lines, seventeen syllables? From what we see in your contest entries, these snapshots, these Polaroids of poetry can deliver a message in a handful of words. La sencillez engañosa es fundamental en la poesía haiku. ¿Cuánto podemos expresar en tres […]