What Michael Jordan’s documentary ‘The Last Dance’ tells us about beating the coronavirus pandemic
With professional sports on hold indefinitely during the coronavirus pandemic, audiences worldwide have been riveted by “The Last Dance,” the 10-episode documentary series on ESPN and Netflix about the Chicago Bulls basketball dynasty of the 1990s. The central figure...
How indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold. And even then, they’ve done so while facing tremendous discrimination and resistance from organizers, other wrestlers and fans. This...
Coronavirus tips: 7 lessons we can learn from hockey
Canadians often see hockey as a metaphor for life. Hockey’s cliché-littered locker room may offer some wisdom as we collectively deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Let’s take a few of hockey’s time-worn aphorisms and apply them to our situation. In Canada’s...
This isn’t the first time sports teams have played in empty arenas
The NBA decided that it will suspend its season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus, just after the NCAA announced that its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be played without spectators because of...Interest Reading
Cryptocurrencies in Cuba are experiencing an extraordinary boom. In a context of serious economic crisis, devaluation of the national currency and freezing of relations between…
Cuba has a special relation with cinema: Havana was one of the first cities in Latin America where the cinema came into scene, it was…
If Adriana Heredia had been asked five years ago about the possibility of becoming an entrepreneur, she would have rejected the notion. This economist, a…
Once sleepy and conservative, Chile’s capital and largest city is now one of the world’s most up-and-coming destinations. The change has come to Santiago in…
The most universal sport awakens great passions in the Caribbean. The countries of this region of the world haven’t obtained great results in the main…
The amazing growth of the Latin American community in the United States has not only entailed a significant demographic change, but also a transformation in…