Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

1336 articles

Voces de Somalia: ablation

At 14 years they married and had to stop studying. At 16, She gave birth to a girl in a hospital in Nairobi. She wept inconsolably for days. 'I wanted to have a child- repeated tearfully. "My daughter will suffer so much! Sorry, sorry, sorry…", she told her baby.

byMaria Ferreira

25 January, 2016

Bruges: the medieval fascination of flamenco Venice

Bruges is a city used to looking in the mirror. Otherwise it is unthinkable that it has been able to preserve intact that medieval beauty that made it one of the nerve centers of commerce in old Europe..

byRicardo Coarasa

22 January, 2016

The Paraguayan Chaco, Mennonites and Ayoreos

"Plus, many more, although most are sick. The shamans forbade them to eat deer meat and now they only eat honey, also from some anteater, they are slow and easy to catch, "he says, while smilingly rubbing his belly.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

19 January, 2016

Flanders to Brussels: the route of Emperor Charles

Adorning facades of historic buildings, chiselled spectacular fireplaces, rooted in popular celebrations, admirable and portrayed in stained glass, even, brands of beer. Belgium has not forgotten Carlos V.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 January, 2016

David's journey. Mid-afternoon coffee

"Hoy se murió David Bowie y luego entré en este café lleno de sol y vacío de gente y a unos decibelios exactamente propicios para mi alma ronroneante en la mesa de la ventana, right in front of the sun, and on the other side the sea, sonó The man who sold the world".

byLaura Berdejo

11 January, 2016

Spain
Europe

Homage to the Sierra de Guadarrama

"Guadarrama. Parque Nacional", by Eduardo Martínez de Pisón and with photographs by Javier Sánchez, It is a geographical and sentimental x-ray of the Madrid mountains

byvap

21 December, 2015

Querétaro: History Buff

"Supongo que la mayor y más peligrosa locura es la de sonreír a los demás sin ninguna razón para hacerlo, cuando lo que se espera de ti es un llanto", I thought when I heard in that beautiful porticoed square a man howl and laugh as if there was no sadness in the world capable of turning off his morning...

byJavier Brandoli

16 December, 2015

wat Muang: The most surreal temple in Thailand

A giant Buddha barged between rice paddies. Nothing seemed to explain why precisely there emerged, a golden figure 92 meters high. In the shadow of the Buddha work daily farmers in the province of Ang Thong, overwhelmed by the dimensions of one of the 10 largest statues in the world.

byDaniel Landa

14 December, 2015

America

Venezuelan Elections: the baker's "count"

“This is a dictatorship, brother", continues the man. “I think that for being like this talking, if a military man passes by, if he wants, he will take me prisoner. That's why I had to change, if not, this is a wreck... see this little bottle, It cost me 80 Bolivars, Not long cost only 5 Bolivars. "

byContributors

9 December, 2015

America

Votes or lead in Venezuela

this has only begun. From today we will know if the change comes or, on the contrary, everything will stay the same, but more expensive. We will know if in Venezuela the votes or the lead are worth more.

byContributors

8 December, 2015

Marwan: «There is no one to put him 20 times the finger in the eye and do not drop a host »

The Spanish singer-songwriter and poet, Palestinian son, speaks clearly of the Israeli conflict, the bombs of paris, the Iraq War, Islamic radicalism and abuse, in your opinion, from west to east. And also of his poetry, love on both sides and the meaning of his works.

byJavier Brandoli

30 November, 2015

Big Island: jam on the island without cars

An idyllic car-free island in the Marmara Sea that, throughout history, it has been the refuge of princes who have come to fewer and millionaires with no more homeland than money. Prohibited to use any motorized means. Can only be traveled by carriage, bicycle or on foot. It sounded so good you had to get close.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 November, 2015

Monarch butterfly: the arrival of the dead

“It was like this. Industrialized products arrived and we began to consume. Before, our women would walk four hours to the city and exchange tortillas and fruit.. Barter was previously practiced. Now we need money for everything.”.

byJavier Brandoli

16 November, 2015

1944 Collarada 2015

"Excursion to Collarada". Thus had my father headed, in 1944, a sheet that now seemed unable to resist a puff: that of his ascent to Collarada from Villanúa, one of the highest slopes in the Pyrenees. I had been around my head for a long time to try to emulate him. Seventy one years later, the time had come.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 November, 2015

The battle narco in the Golden Triangle

Do you feel that every day can kill you? "I care for will not happen, but it will always be probable ", Eden responds Leopoldo Molina, mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo, municipality in the Sierra de Chihuahua ....

byJavier Brandoli

11 November, 2015

Bangkok, 15 years after

One tends to return to the happy face bobo places. Longing to return to Bangkok was distorted by those endless nights party, that youth who now longed to wander the neighborhood of Sukhumvit Road, 15 years after.

byDaniel Landa

9 November, 2015

Cofete: the most spectacular beach of the Canary Islands

Twelve kilometers of sandy unspoiled beach Cofete, protected by a succession of mountains that seem to rise tonne soot, contrasts with the vast expanse of sand saffron separating it from the Atlantic.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 November, 2015

Patzcuaro: the night of the dead

Mrs. Luisa is in the same chair, the same day of the year and before the same photos that he has been praying since one by one they were leaving. Since then, the night of 1 November, she pampers her altar, place your photos and light candles to show your dead the way, the way back home. We are in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.

byJavier Brandoli

3 November, 2015

Breast dry belly Fatuma

For Mama Fatuma was not a happy day: her husband had to divorce her. He married he does 25 years, but she had stopped menstruating few months ago and her husband decided to marry a fertile woman.

byMaria Ferreira

27 Oct., 2015

Sin rumbo

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

Africa

The African Macondo: Javier painful victory Brandoli

Habla Javier de su experiencia africana como "una maravillosa derrota" and I rather think it is a painful victory, that of a guy who loved so intensely Africa ended aching Africa. And we with him.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 Oct., 2015

Saragossa, door to door

Zaragoza is a city overshadowed by topics and an icon, the pillar, which historically has postponed, a visitor's eyes, the rest of the city. Let's look for Zaragoza in its ancient walls and, especially, in their missing doors.

byRicardo Coarasa

9 Oct., 2015

The lost city of the Tayrona

The Frenchman, for example, recalls that he recently read somewhere a theory based on the fact that the Spanish presence decisively increased the level of aggressiveness on the continent., spread like a virus and caused even more atrocities among indigenous people. The two Swiss seem delighted with this explanation and relate their recent visit to the Potosí mines and how much they were impressed by the cruelty that existed in that place.. The Belgian who inexplicably seems to have forgotten the existence of a certain Leopold

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

7 Oct., 2015

The Tonle Sap Floating Life

They have become accustomed to the tides, which makes them rowing home elsewhere, for fish underfoot. And so year after year, with wet feet so much leaving home, both walk and so few steps.

byDaniel Landa

5 Oct., 2015

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10