Argentine film producer Fernando Sulichin’s Hollywood career began by accident; a classroom mix-up in college propelled him headlong into the world of cinema, and he has since worked around the globe with such well-known directors as Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, David Lynch and Martin Scorcese, to name just a few. Sulichin’s films range from adrenaline-filled …
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West African blues twangs from the speakers and coalesces with the sounds of fish grilling, plantains sizzling, and the muffled bang of a pot or pan coming from the small kitchen. A map of Africa painted in red, its countries labelled in French, offers diners a silent geography lesson from the wall above the beer-stocked …
Continue reading El Buen Sabor: Villa Crespo’s Heart of Delicious
Since last August, Brazilians have watched with bated breath as the drama of the ‘mensalão‘, or ‘big monthly bonus’ scandal, has unfolded in the nation’s Supreme Court, toppling some of the South American country’s most influential political figures and even threatening to tarnish the reputation of its most celebrated former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da …
Continue reading Mensalão: The Implications of Brazil’s Largest Corruption Scandal
For those travellers spending any significant amount of time in Buenos Aires, Colonia del Sacramento, the tiny historic city on the Uruguayan side of the Río de la Plata, will most likely find its way onto your travel itinerary, whether you like it or not. A trip to Colonia has become so enmeshed with the …
Two-and-a-half months here in South America have come and gone much faster than I would have liked and, although the trip's been well-documented at least in the privacy of my own journal, I've only just recently reconciled myself with the technology that allows me to share those experiences with others --- hence this blog. Here …
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