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Diego Cobo

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Focused on social issues journalist and travel writer, He is in love with Latin America. He usually publishes in different media in various countries. He has studied in Uruguay, He has lived in Cuba and has crossed Alaska by bicycle, among other incidents. It almost always travels by land and slowly.
20 articles

Black footprints: on the trail of slavery

Five reports and many other countries -Jamaica, Gambia, U.S., Colombia and Cuba- to follow in the footsteps of the slave trade. An experience writer and journalist Diego Cobo, Contributor VaP., plasma in "Black Footprints". On the trail of slavery" (The horizon).
byDiego Cobo
14 February, 2018

The traveler's reasons

Travel has always been the perfect excuse for not looking at ourselves, to turn your face to the mirror. And I say this with the awareness of having traveled a handful of countries from every corner of the planet, from Alaska to Ushuaia, from South Africa to Iverness, from Australia to the Himalayas.
byDiego Cobo
23 Oct., 2015

Peru Bus: praise of despair

The first trip was to last 20 hours, but it was extended to 36: first "hill he fell" -as they say in Peru when there is a shift of land-, then he fell another and then came the night, the tropical heat and despair.
byDiego Cobo
8 June, 2015

Concord: reading Thoreau with his feet

In this quiet Massachusetts town I began to understand that the author who has scratched me the most; that has changed me the most, nurtured, unclothed, separated from the ground ("My house in the clouds is quiet", wrote) and dressed again he talked about things that I, now, he had before his eyes.
byDiego Cobo
30 March, 2015

Nantucket: return to the island of Moby Dick

I had decided to go long ago, without knowing it, when i read moby dick. I told myself: I want to live in Nantucket. I pictured little wooden houses with candles burning away as the wind rolled down narrow streets and fishermen, exhausted, heated around the fire.
byDiego Cobo
13 February, 2015

Harlem: one night with Marjorie

The first time he threw the door in my face. The second, whispered a friendly "come in". The third began to caress the piano. Marjorie Elliot doesn't like to be disturbed in her work time, that seems to swell just before each performance.
byDiego Cobo
19 January, 2015

300 Days in Havana

There is a kind of syndrome that always attacks the traveler who sets foot in Cuba and that he will not understand until after a while. It is a virus that, once inoculated, It can only grow to devour us. Too many people suffer from it. I also, and irreparably. And it's called nostalgia.
byDiego Cobo
15 May, 2014

Valley of the Sugar Mills: Scars sugar

This valley is the symbol of the glorious heyday of the sugar industry. Located around the city of Trinidad, this immense plain of more than 200 square kilometers is no longer upholstered by sugar cane fields, But references from that past are kept alive.
byDiego Cobo
20 March, 2014

Low cost getaways from Havana

In recent weeks I have done a couple of weekend trips. First I went to Cienfuegos and Trinidad, southward, and then Viñales, west of Havana. In all these places slept in homes, an alternative to hotels. Besides being more economical, and personal, are usually the most affordable option.
byDiego Cobo
17 May, 2013
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