September 2009
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Obama on Univisión: Lost in Translation
The media tour president Obama did over the weekend to promote his health care reform was widely analyzed by all sorts of English language outlets. Yet, as you may have guessed, none of them covered what happened on Univisión, the “fifth network,” even when Jorge Ramos interview was outstanding. But to realize that, I had to…
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Olivier Conan, Musical Expeditionary
Chicha, cumbia and rock and roll. Oulipo, Perú and Brooklyn. Accidents, Bach and syncretism. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Olivier Conan. Watch here.
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High Line: A Park in the Middle of the Sky
My vignette of Manhattan’s High Line park, for revista Qué Pasa. Read here.
José Manuel Simián 