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Today Clarín’s Sociedad section ran my story on minors from Africa who are seeking refugee status in Argentina.
There’s been an increase in general of refugees here in Argentina.
But the case of minors has been problematic and different agencies have taken action this year to offer more assistance.
(I’ll post the PDF later, which includes more information.)
One of many things this story taught me was just how globalized our world is.
In my reporting, I called one of the mosques here in BA. This “yanqui” talked with a man of Middle Eastern descent, in Spanish, about refugees from Africa in Argentina.
What impressed, and humbled, me the most in this story was talking with some of the refugees.
I met with one at a park near Once and we talked there, sitting on a curb in the shade on a very hot day.
As we walked back to the train station, we passed by some street kids. He stopped and shook their hands and said hello amigo with a smile. They knew him as a friend who shares food when he can. He then started telling me about the story of Job, how he relates to Job, the tests he endured and his faith.
I learned a great deal, not just from hearing his story and what’s he lived through, but seeing how he lives his daily life.
This story came out last week in the Sociedad section of Clarín.
I did a video along with the story.
I bought a small plant at a feria in Palermo on Sunday on my way to a play.
I’ve had African violets, mis niñas, in Houston and a plant that suffered a lot when I was in NYC.
I’m hoping this one survives. I adopted the plant that I was told was the hardiest. (I don’t have much sunlight in my room, and am not blessed with a green thumb, digamos.)
Meet mi niño.
Most Mondays I head over to Villa Malcolm on Córdoba.
The group Motivo Tango, where I take classes, holds a práctica there that’s really quite lovely.
The last month or so, they’ve also been having professional dancers give performances during the práctica/milonga.
It’s kind of a performance for peers because the majority of the dancers at the practice are quite advanced. Very high level of dancing.
Yet the atmosphere is always relaxed. I love it.
Clarín ran a story in today’s paper about a study that discovered supposedly why men are attracted to the color red.
They asked me to do an informal poll/encuesta on the street.
So yesterday afternoon, I trolled Montes de Oca in Barracas and asked men and women alike: What color do men find most attractive?
That was the soccer chant as hundreds of Americans and other expats watched the results from Tuesday’s election stream in on two huge screens at a bar in Palermo Hollywood.
I covered the watch-turned-victory party for the paper and produced this video.
Again, the light isn’t great and by the end my battery was running low, so the image quality is far from the best. But I’m happy with the opening sequence.
The internal mag at Grupo Clarín wrote up the internship program in the latest issue.
It’s strange to be on the other side of journalism: the interviewee and not the interviewer.
Here’s the clip.
El Nuevo Programa de Pasantías en "Nuestro Medio" de Grupo Clarín.
I edited a review of headlines in U.S. papers 72 hours before the elections.
Take a look at Clarín.com, under the Mundo/World section.
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