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Teachers Strike in Mexico

Teachers Strike in Mexico

  by Robert Joe Stout thumbnail photo source CNN As she stepped off a private flight from San Diego, California to Toluca, Mexico on February 26, 2013 Elba Esther Gordillo, the president of Mexico’s largest labor [...]

Desert Journal: Reporting from Arizona

Desert Journal: Reporting from Arizona

by Walker Rowe   While people shiver on the east coast, in the waning days of winter here in Arizona it is warm and sunny.  The humidity is 15% or less often dropping down to an [...]

Film and Book Review: Les Miserables

Film and Book Review: Les Miserables

 by Walker Rowe I cannot watch Les Miserables Again. I just can’t do it. I have seen the movie and read the novel too many times. I know every scene and anguish over what the movie [...]

Two Poems: Greenhouse and But Silence

Two Poems: Greenhouse and But Silence

Illustration: Carlos Guevara. Click here to see more of this work.   But Silence by Rodrigo Landaeta Silence imagines its margins expanding. Not everyone sleeps like you. Some have served their bodies and watch their own [...]

Film Review:  “Hitchcock” and “The Girl”

Film Review: “Hitchcock” and “The Girl”

by Rick Segrada   In a career that spanned five decades, Alfred Hitchcock proved to be the predominant master, not only of suspense, but of illuminating the dark side of the human condition. Yet his manner [...]

Latin Grammy Award Winners

Latin Grammy Award Winners

Chile is proud that the runner up in last night Grammy’s award for Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album was Chilean musician Ana Tijoux.  Her music is rock and rap but with the originality of [...]

Mirror and Sea

Mirror and Sea

Illustration: Carlos Guevara. Click here to see more of his work.  by Sara Uribe (translated by Toshiya Kamei) Mirror To sleep if necessary and to dream the oblivion of that other that we are. To find [...]

Espejo y Mar

Espejo y Mar

Ilustración: Carlos Guevara. Haga clic aquí para ver más de sus imágenes. por Sara Uribe Espejo Dormir si es necesario y soñar el olvido de ese otro que somos, encontrar nuestra voz, nuestras voces, diseminadas entre [...]

Film Review: Who Killed the White Llama?

Film Review: Who Killed the White Llama?

by Rick Segreda “¿Quién mató a la llamita blanca?”, AKA “Who killed the white llama?” is receiving an extended showing at Santiago’s Plaza Cultural la Moneda, good for the cinema-loving citizens of that city. This wild, [...]

Review: Norteado

Review: Norteado

by Rick Segreda   As a concept for a film, “Norteado” virtually seems like a model of exhaustive compassion fatigue. What could be more wearying for even the most progressive audiences than a story about young [...]