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Abstract: In Venezuela it's common to complement the monthly income with small side enterprises, a practice known as "killing tigers" (matar tigres), but for some it's a way of living. [...]
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Every year all the world celebrates International Women's Day, a day that showcases the economic, political and social achievements of women. Less than a hundred years ago women in Brazil didn't [...]
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Abstract: European migrations since the sixteenth century provoked a world wide movement of men, women, objects, fabrics, ideas, fashion. In colonial Bolivia indians were prohibited from using Spanish clothings in [...]
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Last April Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa went on an international tour of several countries, including Germany, Italy and Spain. In Germany, his intention to open a trading space [...]
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Abstract: Today, only in Brazil, one in every three children between 5 and 9 years is [...]
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After living in Germany, United Kingdom, China and Argentina,Manuel Schneider, a young German business development manager, spent two years in Brazil. Before he left the country, [...]
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As economic immigrants, where do we find our cultural identity? The answers are probably as unique as every immigrant who arrives in a new country. So I decided to ask [...]
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Abstract: La Paz and El Alto cities produce 27% of the daily garbage in Bolivia. Every day in these cities, specially at night, women and their children go out to [...]
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In present-day Brazil immigration has once more taken a pole position in public debate as the estimated population of Bolivians living in the country has reached the 350,000 mark, further [...]
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I set my feet on the São Paulo supernova. It’s a grey morning and streams of people are walking to the nearest subway station. I go with the flow, street [...]
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Growing up in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, I couldn't escape from the ubiquitous 'electronic forró' music, but I was never quite able to enjoy it. Forró is [...]
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Every culture or tradition is an invention, the famous English historian Eric J Hobsbawm once said, so it's impossible to talk about a "pure" culture, a culture free of the [...]
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On February the 20th, 2013, a group of young men murdered 20 year old Karina del Pozo, after a party. She was a model for events and fairs, and as [...]
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The crisis in Europe is starting to cause the demolition of the so-called "Welfare State" in many countries while others are struggling to hold it together. At the same time, [...]
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Some decades ago Esperanza was married secretly. She and Francisco got together one Thursday at 8 in the morning at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Medellín, with two friends [...]
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Abstract: A few days ago, in an academic meeting, I was surprised to hear from a renowned anthropologist woman that she had rejected a postdoctoral candidate. The reason? The candidate had [...]
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Abstract: Fighting for our rights, for basic services, for fair wages, for developing the country avoiding the mistakes the first world has made is a daily thing for us Bolivians. This [...]
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Although the history of democracy in Latin America began in the first decades of the nineteenth century, two hundred years later we still keep talking about "young" and [...]
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Like much of the rest of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro’s public administration record is tainted with opacity, inefficiency and latent corruption. Citizens’ disinterest in the crucial issues of local government [...]
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For the past year or so, I've been really hooked on American TV shows. I make a list of all the ones I’m watching and all the ones [...]
