March 2010
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On the Cuban Blogger Movement
The April issue of Latina is out, including my first collaboration for the publication, an article on the surprising Cuban blogosphere that goes beyond its more famous figure, Yoani Sánchez. [The article is only in the print version as of now.]
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Grupo Folklórico does Arsenio
Many Latin music acts that have been around for a while carry the tag of “legendary” in their press releases. But few of them have surprised as much as Grupo Folklórico y Experimental Nuevayorquino did a few years ago, when they reunited to play a few concerts 30 years after releasing their second album. This…
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Pepe Ribas and Ajoblanco
Some interviews are simultaneously a pleasure and a lesson for the reporter. Here is one such case: a conversation with Pepe Ribas, the founder of legendary counterculture Spanish magazine Ajoblanco. Watch here.
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The Debt of Rafael Gumucio
I have admired the wit and writing chops of Rafael Gumucio since I first read his columns and short stories in Chilean newspaper El Mercurio somewehere in the early nineties. Everything he touched was immediately impregnated with self-deprecation, melancholy and a strange sense of humor. When his first book, a collection of stories, was widely…
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After the Earthquake
At 3:34 a.m. on Saturday, February 27, when the fifth-strongest earthquake ever recorded hit a large area of Chile, I was sleeping with my wife in a hostel of Pucón, a beautiful town in the Lake District of the country. Even when Pucón didn’t receive the strongest impact of the earthquake and we suffered no…
José Manuel Simián 