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Carta Abierta a los Estados Unidos/Open Letter to America

Text: Emergildo Criollo Quenama Photo: Courtesy of Amazon Watch [Editor’s Note: This week, I’ve been writing about big oil’s human rights and environmental abuses in Latin America and Africa on MatadorChange. Today, we ran the English version of the letter that appears below in Spanish. Written by Emergildo Criollo Quenama, an indigenous leader of the … Continue reading »

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Love to Laugh?

Somehow, we got to talking about laughter last night, and I thought about this scene from “Mary Poppins”: What kind of a laugh do you have?

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Havana Film Festival NY: Opening Night

Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Photos: Francisco Collazo * The 10th anniversary of the Havana Film Festival in New York opened tonight at the Directors’ Guild of America in Manhattan. The star of the evening was Cuban actor Jorge Perugorria, who has played the leading role in some of the most popular movies in modern Cuban … Continue reading »

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Life On–and Off– the Screen

Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] * Since I was little, going to movies has been one of my favorite past-times. There, in the theatre, I’d fight powerful enemies and conquer strange, far-off lands. It’s where I learned the art of the conquest, the secrets that were still off-limits … Continue reading »

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Spanish Harlem: A Photographic Tour/El Barrio: Un Recorrido Fotografico

Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] * Headed north of 96th Street on Manhattan’s East Side you enter the heart of Latin life in New York. Bordered on the east by a river of the same name and by Fifth Avenue on the west side, this neighborhood was originally … Continue reading »

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