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6564ArticleTravels without a Donkey: Peru (1)
IT HAS been a strange and difficult few weeks dealing with the loss of my oldest friend Leon from afar. We´ve lost...
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Travels without a Donkey: Ecuador (4)
QUITO is an artistic city. There are murals everywhere, hundreds of diverse sculptures in the parks and streets, and all areas of...
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Travels without a Donkey; Ecuador (3)
ECUADOR´S Constitution states that the rights of Pachamama (Mother Nature) must be protected. Ecuadorians are very proud of their amazingly diverse environment...
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Travels without a Donkey: Ecuador (2)
THE RIGHT of indigenous communities to their own system of trials and punishment is protected in the Ecuadorian Constitution but is still...
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Travels without a Donkey: Ecuador (1)
AS THE old adage goes, ´it´s been a long time between donkeys.´ As was bound to occur eventually we had our first...
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Travels without a donkey: Venezuela (3)
NEXT we headed on an overnight bus to Puerto Ordaz in the east, which is basically the industrial heart of Venezuela. It...
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Travels without a donkey: Venezuela (2)
FOR decades before the failed Chavez-led coup in 1992 Venezuela had a false democracy. The false democracy was a two party system...
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Travels without a donkey: Venezuela (1)
IT IS important to begin these impressions of Venezuela by explaining that our time in this country, in which we have been...
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Travels without a donkey: Nicaragua
I had thought El Salvador was as political a population as was possible, with politically motivated graffiti everywhere and every telegraph pole...
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Travels without a donkey: El Salvador (4)
My fears about Victor working in the sugar cane fields have been confirmed. It seems as if his three week trial has...
