Archive for the 'Latin America' Category



Lugo Takes Latin American One More Step Left


h1 Posted 7 months, 1 week ago in the early morning by oso

I’m going to try to get back in the blogging habit by translating at least one newspaper article or blog post a day from Spanish into English. We’ll see how long it lasts. From today’s La Nación, here are reactions by various Latin American presidents to the victory of ex-bishop, Fernando Lugo in Uruguay’s Sunday [...]

[The Mission] Dia de los Muertos and Fixed Gear Bikes


h1 Posted 1 year ago in the wee hours by oso

Itzpapalotl on Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco’s dirty-hipster neighborhood, the Mission. (The translation and re-conjugation of verbs is my own doing.)
The Day of the Dead, in my neighborhood, is practically the only day in which being Mexican is cool; just as cool as having a fixed-gear bike or having seen the Infidels before [...]

Foreign Correspondents Replaced By Digital DJ’s


h1 Posted 1 year, 9 months ago in the early afternoon by oso

It’s hard to believe that it has already been five months since I was sitting in the café courtyard of the Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas and writing a blog post that I intended to publish that same afternoon. Like so many nearly finished blog posts, however, I never did publish it and it [...]