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Why having the wrong phone carrier in Costa Rica can cost you a date
Written by vlemus
It was early evening on Maundy Thursday. I was in San José, Costa Rica, visiting a friend, and we and a small group of her friends had just come back from a trip to the mountains. Since it was a holiday in a Catholic state, we had a really hard time […]
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Down at heel? Brazil and the international shoe trade
Written by João Miguel Lima
On the issue of free trade agreements, what’s better than the workers’ point of view? In 2012, during a national conference of the footwear industry workers, I became aware of Brazilian workers’s take on the flow of shoes, their jobs, Chinese goods and international agreements.
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The economic crisis from Buenos Aires to Cyprus … and back again
Written by rodolfomohr
The economic crisis has global dimensions. Countries of Latin America and Europe have been suffering its effects through the austerity plans, trade gaps and unemployment. So, some people are seeking the collective answers to global issues, trusting Latin America’s creativity on being a resistance pole to financial capital’s offensive.
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The ‘cultural exception’ in a digital age
Written by Stephen Hartka
The digital era is transforming the way in which people consume cultural products. It’s not uncommon for younger consumers to have neither a television nor a radio because the internet meets all their cultural needs from streaming and downloading music to television, movies, books and news on demand from anywhere […]
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Where Free Trade Fails – The Cultural Dimension of TAFTA
Written by Dragos C. Costache
As a European, a tech geek and a fan of free trade I’m all in favour of the proposed EU-US free trade area. But as with any big agreement there are quite a few caveats to be added: net neutrality activists are claiming that TAFTA is just another backdoor for […]
