Peru, the new place to eat

A ceviche with the national beverage Inca Kola / Adrimcm - Flickr.com

International trends have something unpredictable. but sometimes they are very rational. Look at the cooking fashion. a few years ago, Chinese food arrived all around the world with Chinese migrants and the active part China took in the globalization. Then Japanese restaurants opened in New York, London, Sao Paulo, Paris and Dubai as everybody in the world was interested by healthy food and fresh products. This trend has not finished but people are always searching for something else.

Political prisoners still die in Cuba

Orlando Zapata Tamayo / AFP PHOTO / Files / Adalberto ROQUE

Political prisoners still die in Cuba All the analysis about a Cuban regime’s detente are falling down. News from the Caribbean island were not optimistic regarding the human rights. Yesterday a political prisoner died after 85 days on hunger strike. The authorities did not make anything to prevent it. According to his family, it is a kind of murder.

The singer, the president and a “H1J0D3PU7A”

Here is another proof of how Twitter has changed the way people communicate, especially celebrities. And so on, as the story has many dimensions. Colombian singer Juanes worsened the diplomatic crisis between Colombia and Venezuela. The reason: a message he left on his Twitter account. The man who sang “La Camisa negra” made a joke. “They just gave me the PIN code of Hugo Chavez’s cellphone. Do you want it? It is H1J0D3PU7A”. Well, not so funny, it makes me better think about the jokes children make with their calculator. But the fact is that the relationship between Colombia and Venezuela were particularly tight.

And if the Venezuelan crisis was deeper?

Bad days for Hugo Chavez and even more for the whole Venezuela. Since the beginning of the year, the economical crisis which had been latent for months, erupted. And now it threatens to become a political crisis as the parliamentary elections are coming (September 2010).

The memory of Mexico City

Héctor Garcia

During my latest travel in Mexico, I visited the Mexico City Museum, in the historical center of the city. There was an exhibition of Héctor García, one of the most lustrous photographs in Latin America over the past decades. The main part of his work is an amazing testimony of what Mexico City has been since the 1950s. He covered demonstrations, social conflicts as a photoreporter, and sometimes just took a picture as a life snapshot in the street.