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Is the end of the Bog-standard tienda nigh?

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@wwaycorrigan About the only thing we can be certain of these days is that the uncertainty permeating through practically every sector of society is set to continue for the coming months if not years. Much has been written about the «new normals»  we’ll have to live with because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of them, […]

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The Colombia caste

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@wwaycorrigan «You can take the man out of the barrio, but you can’t take the barrio out of the man.» OK, that old saying doesn’t really apply to me in its entirety. For Bogotá’s ‘barrios populares’, the working-class neighbourhoods, are still...

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Leaving behind the Bogotá standard

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@wwaycorrigan After almost seven years of having Bogotá as the base, the greatest ‘achievement’ — let’s not get caught up in the semantics here — has been my assimilation to the working-class Bogotá barrio life. While many locals with aspirations to...

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The Disposable Republic of Colombia

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@radiobrendan It tends to be the case that going green is one of the last things countries concern themselves with on the route to ‘development’. Environmental issues are usually an afterthought as states strive to boost their economies. This can be particularly...

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Rediscovering the joie de vivre

Por: Brendan 'Wrong Way' Corrigan
Publicado en: Wrong Way Corrigan

@radiobrendan Back in late 2007, during my first full-time radio job, the general manager of the station in question, a recently-appointed Portuguese man, took to me one side and said, ‘Brendan, you’ve lost your joie de vivre.’ While he mightn’t have been...

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