Santiago Ana Sugranyas, our friend from Habitat International Coalition, which we had gotten to know at the World Urban Forum this summer in Vancouver, was gracious enough to invite us to dinner at the apartment she and her husband shared in the Provencia neighborhood east of Santiago’s center. Her husband is Alberto Rodriguez, director of …
Category: International
La Toma
Santiago Ana Sugranyes, the energetic director of Habitat International — Coalition, headquartered in Santiago, had somehow managed to get us meetings with community leaders in both La Victoria and Sierra Navia at different times during the weekend and guided us through the sprawling city to these meetings. Both communities were outgrowths after 30 and 50 …
Mass Transit
Buenos Aires We tried all the forms of mass transit to settle on our favorite, and maybe the best, system for getting from the Belgrano neighborhood where we are living to the ACORN office on Medrano, where we work in El Centro just a few blocks from the Casa Rosado, the national capitol of Argentina. …