Argentine karma
Sunday’s elections will be decided between an angry man who talks to his dead dog, an economy minister who is sinking what he is supposed to float and a former minister who has only displayed her inefficiency
Venetian masquerade
The city is occupied by a silent resistance, which never speaks its name. It consists of ripping off the tourist in a thousand ways
Cortázar's nightmare
The interview went on for hours. He talked, remembered, laughed; and I was hanging breathlessly on his every word
Text me in five miles
With a message on a sign, the state is exhorting you not to despair, telling you that your message can wait a few minutes
Back to the wars
South Sudan, the world's newest country, has poverty and petroleum in abundant supply – but peace is a little harder to come by
Unidentified object
Amazon’s dream of delivery drones sounds like the biblical plague of locusts that “darkened all the land of Nile”
Swimming upstream
The anathema of fecal implants
Bullocks and cannibals
When the first Christian missionaries in Madagascar spoke of "conquering the heart of the Malagasy people," it was taken literally
No more manly kissing
When I was a teenager, Argentinean men simply shook hands. But about 20 years ago, the fad for kisses started