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Paraty, the forgotten city

For: Gerardo Bartolomé (text and photos)
Paraty, the forgotten city
The village is almost halfway to two major cities: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Today it seems incredible to think that, 400 years back, This village could dream of competing with them, but it was.
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Tlaxcala: forbidden to remember Cortés

For: Ricardo Coarasa (Reo photos)
Tlaxcala: forbidden to remember Cortés
In few cities is as revealing a statue of his idiosyncrasies as in Tlaxcala. His ancestors were allied with Cortes to overturn the Aztec hegemony, but the only monument that remembers what happened is a statue of Xicotencatl "Young", the son of the cacique who rebelled against the Conqueror and was hanged for it.
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Galapagos: Darwin's Enchanted Islands
For: Gerardo Bartolomé (text and photos)

Galapagos: Darwin's Enchanted Islands
The traveler and scientist expect to find in these islands the solution to the "mystery of mysteries", as he called the Origin of Species. But after just over five weeks, left with more questions than answers.
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Cholula: where volcanoes spew churches
For: Ricardo Coarasa (Reo photos)

Cholula: where volcanoes spew churches
Jorge Luis leads the "muertera" leaning against the shoulder, with the same circumspection with which recalls that in his wild youth was nine times in prison. We went to the church of Los Remedios, built on the ancient Great Pyramid of Cholula, the city with more churches per square meter in all of Mexico.
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