Travelling Mexico, meeting people, staying in their homes, sitting down at their tables. The same question always insinuates itself into the conversation. Asked in a hundred different ways, the voices […]
At the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad in 2009, much of the talk was of what the various heads of state would make of the new kid on the […]
One of the first things I learned about León was that Rubén Darío, Nicaragua’s most famous poet, was buried there, in the cathedral. That was years before I visited Nicaragua. […]
Nicaragua has been calling to me for years. I’m not sure what the origin of the appeal is, but I came to Mexico partly because it would put me within […]
When Pablo Neruda’s heart stopped in 1973 it could have signified the death of poetry in Chile. Augusto Pinochet’s coup was smothering the country in fear, silencing voices of dissent, […]
