Lima Sometimes there is real substance behind the symbols and that is the way I felt walking down the concourse in the semi-renovated San Salvador airport in El Salvador when suddenly we walked up a 5 feet tall by 10 or more feet long mural commemorating Archbishop Romero,the martyred face of repressive civil war that …
Category: International
Predatory Microlending Schemes
New Orleans I have never been a huge fan of the widely touted claims of microlenders that small loans – debt by any definition – are a successful poverty reduction strategy. At best they are an “employment acquisition” scheme for some select people too often within the informal or home-based economy. At worst they are …
Blue Frogs and National Geographic in Dharavi
Mumbai Inevitably one cycles back what what hears that is new back to what one knows that is old from your own experience. The more I kept looking at the poster for the bands from Norway and the United Kingdom playing for people in Dharavi in honor of ACORN’s work with recyclers there, I assumed …