The devastating earthquake in Haiti has focused the world’s attention on the island nation’s desperation and grinding poverty. To understand Haiti’s important role in modern… more »
Sometimes, a single piece of physical evidence can overpower thousands of words of speechifying. A reporter for Telesur TV takes the cameras to the presidential… more »
Whatever happens in Honduras, the crisis has been tremendously good to Telesur TV.
The satellite and cable news channel launched as a sort of Latin American… more »
Honduras is the original “Banana Republic.” The American writer O. Henry coined the term in his early 1900s book of interlinked stories called Cabbages and… more »
Bill Santiago has written a book in Spanglish called, “Pardon my Spanglish: Porque, Because”: http://www.pardonmyspanglish.com with jokes and explanations about how Spanglish is used. This… more »
President Obama will make a stop in Mexico City today, the first presidential visit to the hemisphere’s largest metropolis since the early 1990s. He’ll meet… more »
Mystical Izalco portends the end of Salvadoran silence.
To understand the current presidential elections in El Salvador, you have to understand the cities, towns and the… more »
Saludos from El Salvador, land of my ancestors and of ghosts loving and hostile, a land that’s on the verge of volcanic, platetechtonic shifts of… more »
For the past few years around the time of my birthday I experience a unique tension from a number of social constructions that have continually… more »
Thanks to the Colombian military and their valiant operation, the once-held U.S. captives are experiencing freedom on this Day of Independence in the United States,… more »
