🎶 Juan Luis Guerra - Ojalá qué llueva café / #JuanLuisGuerra
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..."So that on the small farms they don’t suffer as much”
Poverty is most felt in the rural areas of the #DominicanRepublic, where 👉agricultural crisis is often experienced. It is felt that the majority of government money is used to support tourism and other economic means rather than agriculture.👈
Also, natural factors such as hurricanes and other tropical storms threaten crops.
“Café” – The...
The #CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup is starting up tonight. #Mexico vs #Argentina currently on, then #USWNT vs #DominicanRepublic at 10:15pm ET. You can watch on Paramount+ if you haven't canceled your #NWSL subscriptions already
Melania Luisa Marte is the author of Plantains and Our Becoming (Tiny Reparations Books, August 2023). National Book Award–winning author Elizabeth Acevedo (author of Clap When You Land and Family Lore) calls Marte’s book “a full-throated war cry; both a request for anointment and the responding bendición.” The book...
The Retreat of the Butterflies
A masked portrait of a teenager in an underage penitentiary centre in the Dominican Republic. Participants in the photo project were encouraged to regain possession of their image and become actors in their lives in a place that deprives them of freedom. Blast asked each participant to send a message to their future selves. Selected extracts were transcribed on to the images.
I'm a slightly autistic introvert, interested in a lot of things like surfing, design, technologies and computer science. Russian (native), English (foreign). 35+ yrs old.
US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence (www.theguardian.com)
Washington says no despite ‘frantic’ talks between diplomats, as bodies lie in street and army battles gun-toting gang members
A Q&A with Afro-Latina author and poet Melania Luisa Marte (repeatingislands.com)
Melania Luisa Marte is the author of Plantains and Our Becoming (Tiny Reparations Books, August 2023). National Book Award–winning author Elizabeth Acevedo (author of Clap When You Land and Family Lore) calls Marte’s book “a full-throated war cry; both a request for anointment and the responding bendición.” The book...