In Honduras, cowboy hats and machetes are required attire for men. In fact, if you’re not packing a leather case with fringe slung across your back for your machete, you might as well not be masculine. While I was only in Honduras for 2 nights and 1.5 days, I loved soaking up the machismo, eating [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Latin America’
November 13, 2009
A weekend in Belize!
This weekend I jetted across the ocean to my neighbor and the only country in Latin America populated with English speakers, Belize. I stayed in Punta Gorda, which is a small town in Southern Belize on the ocean full of easy-going locals, creole, and some really expensive beer (ok well at least compared to Guatemalan [...]
September 23, 2009
Independance Day- are we really free?
A few days ago, Guatemala celebrated it’s Independence Day. It falls on the same day as Mexico’s, but unlike last year which I spent shouting and dancing in the Zocalo (VIVA!), this year’s was spent watching school children parade about the tiny town of Livingston. Some of the girls were quite sassy, and wearing colorful [...]
January 26, 2009
On Machismo
Oh Machismo, the bane of my existence in Mexico. Machismo is a complicated word, but I find it most commonly used to excuse all sorts of ridiculous behavior on behalf of men. “No te preocupes, es solo el machismo,” they tell me, as if that somehow makes rampant sexism ok. Most of the time down [...]
July 29, 2008
Un Recuerdo de los pobres…
In Mexico City, the vast number of the urban poor here work informal jobs on the black market, running taco stands and selling pirate DVDs, washing car windows and cleaning houses. They do what they can to eek out a living and although they are everywhere, on every street corner, I have come to see [...]
