How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America by Andres Neuman

Author:Andres Neuman [Neuman, Andres]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Globalization, Immigration, Non-Fiction, South American Travelogue, Travel
ISBN: 9781632060686
Publisher: Restless Books
Published: 2016-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

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An impersonator from the radio show La Luciérnaga arrives at the restaurant. She is pleasant and eats a lot, as if each of her voices demands a meal. She relates a conversation she once had with former Colombian president Rafael Uribe. “Are you the person who tells those little fables?” the president asked her. “No, I tell jokes. You’re the one who tells little fables.”

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We start to talk about machismo. A woman from Bogotá, in a spectacular act of self-deception, says something I’ve heard before: in Spain there is more machismo than in other countries, because there’s more news about abused women. I ask her how many cases have been reported here. What official data exists. She shrugs.

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