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Tranvías por las calles de Cuba

2008-11-14T22:27:00.005Z

Cuba fue de los primeros países en tener tranvías, con una línea entre Regla y Guanabacoa y otra en el casco urbano habanero instalada en 1858, adelantándose a las urbes europeas, excepto París. En aquellas últimas décadas del XIX los carros eran movidos por caballos. Llegaron, luego de la inauguración oficial del sistema, en 1862, a circular por unos 50 kilómetros de vías férreas con cerca de

Los nuevos rostros del Viejo Mundo

2008-09-20T18:05:00.016+01:00

(Publicado en diario Público, Guadalajara)(Fotos: Giorgio Viera)Su pasado colonial y las sucesivas olas migratorias han hecho de Europa una tierra diversa y multicultural que se muestra desde las calles de sus grandes metrópolis del mundo, donde comunidades venidas de los cuatro puntos cardinales replican, a pequeña escala y utilizando todos los recursos que tienen a la mano, sus países de

A night in Soho

2008-05-22T20:15:00.005+01:00

Jessica promised amazing girls for £5 and private dancers for £10. It sounded like the bargain of the night.Her beauty made Soho look like paradise and lured us in.She turned out to be the hook, and we were the perfect fish. Market for debaucheryWe were looking for a story.And Jessica was not the first to offer us forbidden “delights” that night. ‘Exotic’ girls (read from any ethnic background),

Una noche en el Soho de Londres

2008-05-03T23:47:00.005+01:00

Jessica prometía deslumbrantes y complacientes chicas por sólo 5 libras, danzas privadas por 10. El trato sonaba como la ganga de la noche. Su casi cinematográfica belleza hacía que el Soho pareciera un paraíso y pudo más que cualquier duda y nos atrajo escaleras abajo. La rubia este-europea, que de hecho podría haber posado para un pintor renacentista, resultó ser el perfecto anzuelo para la

Toxic waves flowing into life

2008-04-12T12:23:00.006+01:00

(Photo: Ian Parker)There is a warm paradise called Annobon 350 km off the west coast of Africa. Visitors are stunned by its valleys and steep mountains, exuberant woods and tropical beaches. Annobon is under Ecuadorian Guinea jurisdiction, and therefore under Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s control.At a single glance the landscapes are

Climate change: living in the edge

2008-03-19T17:01:00.010Z

Greenpeace and scientists make a simple picture to explain the magnitude of mankind’s footprint in Earth’s evolution. They compare the planet, which has an estimated age of 4.600 millions years, to a 46-year old person. The Modern Man has lived on the planet just for four hours. In the last hour, he discovered agriculture, and in the last minute of that hour the Industrial Revolution gave birth

From Cuban countryside to London

2008-03-11T18:22:00.010Z

When the Boeing 747-400 was gliding towards Gatwick airport, almost ten hours after taking off from Havana, I could barely imagine that five months later I would be wondering if it has really been only five months. It seems much longer to me. And I am not talking about experiencing some sort of time machine, but rather about Thomas Mann’s Hans Cartorp, who, when travelling to Magic Mountain,

Mankind, the sea's worst nightmare

2008-03-02T19:44:00.011Z

Only 3.7 percent of the ocean is not heavily impacted by human activity, and the most of untouched areas are in the poles, where seasonal or permanent ice limits human reach.A study by the US National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) found that more than 40 percent of oceans are deeply affected by overfishing, pollution and biochemical changes due to global warming.Scientists

Climate change: Overheated planet, lukewarm reactions

2008-02-13T01:35:00.001Z

Evidences are irrefutable. Everybody accepts climate change is a real danger and the issue is influencing the agenda of summits and hitting headlines, but in fact business instinct is prevailing over conservation instinct. Valencia, Bali, Davos and more recently New Delhi summits were examples. But this year will be over and the next and governments, countries and enterprises will not reach a

Cambio climático: Planeta sobrecalentado, tibias reacciones

2008-02-07T00:02:00.000Z

Las señales son irrefutables, todos lo aceptan y el tema ocupa las cumbres y los titulares de prensa, pero el instinto de negocios opaca al instinto de conservación. Valencia, Bali, Davos, ahora Nueva Delhi. Y llegará el año próximo, sin que nos pongamos de acuerdo. Sólo basta mirar los embotellamientos en la OMC. Pero al menos el comercio, los conflictos de intereses, pueden esperar por

Drugs: the dilemma of legalisation

2008-02-02T00:56:00.000Z

Dennis Hooper’s face in Blue Velvet is scary, with bloodshot eyes and an unpredictable anger destroying everything in its way, like a derailed train. Pictures like this jump out from many people’s minds when they hear about the legalisation of illegal substances. However, views are changing in the United Kingdom and other countries as the debate revolves around the persistence of consumption

Another day

2008-01-31T11:25:00.001Z

The noisy ringing persistently knocks at your eyelids. Too much hot, your mouth dry, unbearable heaviness in your legs. You cannot stand your burning ribs. A finger on the switch and the morning news fill the room. Is it morbid fascination or is it just that there is no other reality? Is it that bad things are the only ones occurring, or that good news is boring, unmarketable? Who knows? But

Amanecer

2008-01-30T00:16:00.001Z

El ruidoso ring rompe los párpados. La boca seca, demasiado calor. Las piernas indeseables, las costillas insufribles… Un dedo sobre el power y las noticias matutinas: ¿Morbo o simple y única realidad? ¿Sólo ocurren cosas malas o lo bueno es aburrido y poco noticioso? Vaya a saber. El mundo se acaba. Una pesadilla de desiertos, cielos negros de nubes enloquecidas, mares desbordados pestilentes

Davos, global warming, and us

2008-01-26T04:13:00.000Z

Once more, Albert Gore warned that climate change is speeding up and policymakers must step up action against the planetary emergency by making new laws. “Climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than the most pessimistic prospects predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” said Gore in the World Economic Forum taking place in Davos,

Davos, el clima y nosotros

2008-01-24T15:55:00.000Z

Albert Gore ha vuelto a advertirlo: el cambio climático va más rápido incluso de lo pronosticado por el panel intergubernamental de la ONU en noviembre pasado. “La crisis del clima es significativamente peor y se desarrolla más rápido de lo que advirtieron las proyecciones más pesimistas del Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC)”, dijo Gore en el Foro de Davos, Suiza. En

Historias desde el fondo del mar

2008-01-23T13:12:00.000Z

Los habitantes de La Española habían recibido generosos y pacíficos a Cristóbal Colón y sus hombres, les habían regalado oro. Promisoria navidad. Fortuna después del infortunio y los desvelos y temores. Pero durante el bojeo de aquella noche se sintió un brusco remezón en la Santa María: la nao capitana había encallado en los arrecifes y no hubo manera de salvarla. Los restos no fueron al

Giorgio: el hallazgo de la mirada

2008-01-20T16:47:00.000Z

-Exposiciones en Colombia, México, Cuba, Holanda, Estados Unidos, Republica Dominicana, Francia, Alemania y Japón. Algunos premios:-Premio Nacional de Periodismo de la Unión de Periodistas de Cuba (1995 y 1996)-World Press Photo (2004)-Primer Premio del Festival Aella Foto Latina en París (2005)-Premio Foto Prensa México en las Bienales de Fotoperiodismo 2003 y 2005-Premio Estatal de

Puertos del Caribe: escalas de una fecunda encrucijada

2008-01-20T15:35:00.000Z

La ciudad se abre al día y cobran vida las bajas casas de intensos colores, los recios palacios y las plazas para el paseo o el comercio. Suena el clarín de las tropas en la fortaleza y entre toques de campanas, pregoneros, artesanos y fieles que se apuran a misa, comienzan a flotar los olores en libérrima yuxtaposición: aguas de lavanda, especias, tasajo, bacalao, orines y otras excrecencias,

Benazir, the controversial daughter

2007-12-27T16:52:00.000Z

“We’ll have atomic weapons even if we have to eat grass,” Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir’s father, said in 1972. Sixteen years later, she became the first woman to rule a Muslim country that has become a very unstable nuclear power. Politics and high expectations were part of the family tradition, as well as a journey into a road where success and failure alternates. Her father’s

Shattered dreams behind the sugar curtain

2007-12-18T14:41:00.000Z

Having breakfast without milk, taking a bath without soap, cooking without oil, for a whole Cuban generation it meant passing from the age of innocence under a generous state that provided them with almost everything to their adulthood in the 1990s, under a Special Period where that state almost fell apart.The country changed from one day to the next and so did the Cubans. But, what about their

El museo rodante de La Habana

2007-11-08T02:41:00.000Z

“El motor tiene partes de Lada y el resto es mucho invento... Ahí tú lo ves, algo escachado y viejito pero sigue caminando y gracias a él vivimos la familia y yo”, dice Oscar, uno de los tantos “boteros” – choferes privados de alquiler, en jerga habanera- que transitan por las calles de la capital cubana al volante de autos norteamericanos, mayormente de las décadas de los ´40 y los ´50 y

Havana in its 488

2007-11-07T23:57:00.000Z

They called it the Key to the New World. It was also known as a Meeting Point, the City of Waters, and the City of Columns. It is te eclectic Havana, wonderfully bright, sensual, where anything can happen; where you can truly live like an intellectual, or in an alternative way, or like a Bohemian, according to Graham Greene.Of course, it doesn’t have the eastern Samarqand jewels, the mystic

Portobello Road Market

2007-11-07T14:42:00.000Z

ALMOST EVERYTHING, FROM ALMOST EVERYWHERED-day is coming. The gift must be valuable and unique but not a catastrophe for your pocket. The dilemma grows deeper every hour and there’s no space for anything else in your brain. And suddenly, like Newton’s apple, a name comes out, Portobello Road Market. You are not becoming an Einstein, but there’s no doubt it is a very convenient