¿Cómo es posible terminar sintiendo rechazo hacia uno de los países más eficientes, limpios y desarrollados del mundo? Esa es la pregunta que me planteo tras volver a visitar Singapur como turista, cuatro años después de haber vivido en esta pequeña nación insular durante mi semestre de intercambio. En agosto de 2022, me fui de… Read More »Haciendo las paces con Singapur
How can you end up disliking one of the most efficient, clean, and developed countries in the world? That’s the question I am asking myself after re-visiting Singapore as a tourist, four years after I lived in the small island nation for my exchange semester. In August 2022, I moved out of my home country… Read More »Making peace with Singapore
¿Timor Oriental? ¿Qué es eso? Si alguien te pidiera que cogieras un mapa del mundo y eligieras un país para viajar, apostaría a que tu primera opción no sería Timor Oriental. De hecho, si fueras a una clase llena de estudiantes universitarios y les preguntaras uno por uno si han oído hablar de ese país,… Read More »Escapando de la globalización en Timor Oriental
Timor-Leste? What is that? If someone told you to take a map of the world and choose a country to travel to, I could bet a lot of money that your first choice wouldn’t be Timor Leste. In fact, if you went to a class full of university students and asked one by one if… Read More »Escaping Globalization in Timor-Leste
It was Summer 2025, I had just graduated from my Master’s and I wanted to do something big. I had fresh savings from my internship and the fellowship I was receiving to pay for my Master’s and I wanted to do something that I knew I was going to remember forever, but what exactly? For… Read More »The story of the Summer I did a full tour around the world
O libro “Petit Pays” de Gaël Faye foi a miña primeira introducción (en condicións) a Ruanda hai dous anos, cando o tiven que ler para a miña clase de Historia Contemporánea Africana. Aínda que o libro fala do xenocidio dende a perspectiva burundesa, é imposible separalo do seu veciño do norte, que sufriu a maior… Read More »Unha gran loita para un país pequeno
The book “Petit Pays” by Gaël Faye was my (proper) introduction to Rwanda two years ago when I had to read it for my Contemporary African History class. Although the book speaks about the Genocide from the Burundian side, it is impossible to detach it from its Northern neighbor, which suffered the worst part of… Read More »A big fight for a small country
I hardly ever criticize a country I visit. I can find a couple exceptions such as Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates, but my poor experience in those countries had nothing to do with the people of the country but more with the way those nations are configured, where money is the only thing that… Read More »Sri Lanka? Not again, thank you
Less than ten years ago, San Salvador was known as the homicide capital of the world. With a rate of 103 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2015, the country was one of the most insecure in the world, hostage to gang wars and a public sector incapable of dealing with crime. Eight years later, in… Read More »El Salvador from the inside: the reality of Bukele-land
La Macaronesia es una región geográfica que engloba algunas de las islas del Atlántico frente a las costas de África y Europa. Canarias, Madeira, Azores…y Cabo Verde. Los que me conocen saben que soy un gran fan de las Canarias. Un clima agradable y caminatas increíbles nunca pueden ser una mala combinación. En mi imaginación,… Read More »Cabo Verde: la realidad tras los resorts