Category Archives: General

Originally posted on Richard Detrich:
I found this great article by my friend Anne Gordon who is married to one of the brothers of my friend Erito Barrigon. The article is about the Embera village at San Juan de Pequini.…

Originally posted on Living It Up in Ecuador:
The first week we moved into our home here in San Clemente in January of 2012 we took some pictures of the house and the yard.  The fence line between our home and…

Originally posted on Comunidad Segundo Montes:
Written by Mike Farrell For Huffington Post Wednesday, 19 March 2014 As one of many Americans who fought the Reagan Administration’s effort to turn El Salvador into another Vietnam, I’m both inspired by current…

Originally posted on Displaced Stories:
Today is the first day of spring which is also celebrated as Nowruz, Persian new year. More than 300 million people worldwide celebrate this time of the year and a city like Tehran becomes more…

Originally posted on Rio Then:
Above you can see a September 1932 advert from the magazine Vida Doméstica about a project called Gavelandia, in São Conrado. The then-deserted neighborhood started to interest investors and the advert to occupy the area…

Originally posted on Rio Then:
(click here to enlarge) This is a map of Rocinha’s evolution in terms of territorial occupation, from the 1940s til 2005. A note on the yellow section. “From 1950 to 1960 alone, the favela’s growth…

Originally posted on Zobo With A Shotgun | Portfolio of reviews, editorials, podcasts & more:
Finding something as beautiful and haunting as Junk Head 1 doesn’t happen often, and the only reason for my stumbling upon this was due to the…

Originally posted on Simon and Sue's Mid Life Gap Year:
Raving in Rio Well what can you say? Rio is a crazy town which needs no excuse to party and drink at the best of times, so when carnival…

Originally posted on No Se Mancha:
Brazilian economist Carlos Góes on the libertarian roots of Conditional Cash Transfer programs A good idea- but where did it come from? Milton Friedman and Lula would agree on this one. And that might catch…