By Tyler Wayne Patterson “Wait, what is fork in Spanish again?” I asked my sister, shocked I could not remember. “Tenedor!” she told me. Oh yeah. I should know that. I’ve been taking Spanish for six years. You see, I’ve been trying to translate everything I hear, see and think into Spanish to prepare for […]
“La represión llegó temprano” or “Out of the frying pan, into the fire”
If anyone had any doubts about who had been detained and threatened with deportation in places “such as Nicaragua,” that would be me. I had also dragged along one Jack Carrick to serve as body guard/travel companion/professional photographer, so we had the pleasure of bonding over our detainment by the Nicaraguan national police in San […]
DF-HAB
I’m in Mexico City on the night before my flight to Havana, Cuba. My bag is packed with strange items that can’t be had very easily in Cuba; tea, energy bars, cough drops, aspirin, shampoo, and lots of pirated DVDs from Mexico City’s streets. I have spent the last couple of days trying to set […]
