Press
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Susana Baca: “I had to kick open the doors to success”
[Published on Pie Derecho, July 2010. Click to enlarge.]
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Marc Anthony Sings the Songbook of Mom and Dad
[Continue reading on the Daily News]
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Blogging the revolution
[My first contribution to Latina, an article on the Cuban blogger movement, can be read here.]
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Barcelona / Linguamón
DURING THE LAST DAYS OF APRIL, I visited Barcelona invited by Fundación Linguamón, an organization of the Generalitat de Catalunya devoted to the promotion of multilingualism. There I learned of their House of Languages project, and produced packages on languages and immigration for NY1 Noticias.
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Brooklyn Inn
[Published on Pie Derecho, May 2010] A VECES PIENSO que el mejor bar del mundo está en mi barrio. Ahí, en una cuadra en la que los locales comerciales de la calle Smith parecen haberse acabado y el barrio se transforma en los brownstones de Boerum Hill, en un edificio residencial se asoma titilando el letrero…
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I♥BK
[Published on Qué Pasa on April 9, 2010] SI LOS RASCACIELOS, los teatros y los parques de Manhattan son la cara de Nueva York, Brooklyn es su corazón. El más poblado de los cinco condados que conforman la ciudad (sus dos millones y medio de habitantes lo harían la cuarta urbe con más habitantes de Estados…
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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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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…
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New Blog: Tinta Idiota
Just as if I had unlimited free time on my hands instead of none, I have decided to start a new blog on media. Tinta Idiota is a blog in Spanish about the digital revolution and journalists I admire and loath. Why “idiot ink”? Because, paraphrasing Hölderlin, we are geniuses when we think, but idiots when we write.…
José Manuel Simián 