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Rhys Evans obituary

Rhys Evans obituary

October 17, 2020

Rhys Evans, who died on August 29 aged 80 of motor neurone disease, was a genuine polymath. Formally a schoolteacher, he was also an adult education tutor, youth worker, linguist, musician, internationalist, hillwalker, cyclist and gifted writer of poems and stories (which he only shared with very few). He was fluent in German and Spanish, […]

Category: Obituaries | Tags: Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala

The worst journey in the Americas

The worst journey in the Americas

June 28, 2017

A review of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez Living in Nicaragua, I regularly meet people who have migrated or want to migrate to neighbouring countries. I’ve also met people who take their chances going to Spain without a visa (including one who claimed to be […]

Category: Migration, Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, drugs, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, El Salvador

The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya

The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya

March 18, 2016

Several books on my recent reading pile might broadly be categorised as being about ‘exiles’, and few exiled people have been in a worse position than those who left their homelands to avoid the Central American guerilla wars of the 1980s. This applied especially to combatants, but almost equally at risk were left-wing sympathisers or […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: US intervention, Mexico, El Salvador

1519: A Journey to the End of Time

1519: A Journey to the End of Time

December 31, 2015

So much has been written about the Spanish conquest of Latin America that it has become difficult to find new approaches to the topic. Hugh Thomas’s definitive history of the invasion of Mexico, now called simply Conquest, is 20 years old, but his monumental history of the Spanish monarchy is much more recent, and volume […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Mexico, Latin America, Spanish conquest

Dharavi in Mumbai is usually considered to be Asia’s largest slum, with a million people living and working in just under a square mile. Photo: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images

There’s a global housing crisis and politicians must do more to tackle it

June 10, 2015

Access to safe and affordable housing is vital in both the north and south. But how much will it cost and do politicians care enough about the urban poor? The official figure for the number of people who live in slums is 863 million people, but that number is more likely to be 1.3 billion […]

Category: Housing | Tags: Mexico, beds in sheds, slums, India, Brazil | 1 Response

Children crossing

Children crossing

July 11, 2014

There’s nothing new about children travelling alone through Central America and Mexico to get to the United States. The journey and its dangers were portrayed five years ago in the film Sin Nombre. One character, Sayra, a teenage girl from Honduras, ends up crossing the Rio Grande alone. She is looking out for Casper, a […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Honduras, US intervention, Mexico, migration

Mothers of the disappeared

November 5, 2012

Three weeks ago a remarkable caravan of vehicles arrived at the Mexican town of Reynosa, just across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. It left the northern border of Nicaragua on 12 October, carrying the relatives of migrants who made the journey north to cross illegally into the United States, but vanished along the way. The […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Mexico, migration

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