Chirps versus tweets, seeds and echoes of past terrorist-fighting curfews, a Peruvian finds serenity in one of the longest nationwide lockdowns in Latin America. Lima is a sprawling city of more than nine million people. I live in the border between the residential...
The flip side of being an only child in the coronavirus lockdown in Bogota: a crash course in becoming a caretaker of divorced, aging parents. Quarantine measures began in Bogota on March 20, with what Mayor Claudia Lopez called an “isolation drill.” This was two...
Self-quarantine has prevented me from doing everything I love. It’s depressing, but if the city didn’t take measures, I had to. On Sunday, I heard the typical sounds of the Colonia Portales, the southern Mexico City neighborhood where I live: the...
From one week to the next, the world as we knew it changed. Mandatory quarantine took over Buenos Aires. Our routine changed. We’ve changed. In the month that I spent in Antarctica I learned many things. There, nature is accepted as an unbreakable dogma. If there is a...