New investigations into the disappearance of commercial planes over the Bermuda triangle have led to new theories about the mysterious geographic location. Accident investigators cite faulty mechanics and limited 1940s technology as the primary causes of aircraft vanishing. Full report on the BBC website, followed by a new Radio 4 series commencing Monday 14 September [...]
Friday, August 14, 2009
South from Texas over the great Sierras of Mexico, high in the air, clouds rolling and swelling and spilling out rainbows. Everything shifting and shivering in the diminishing light: white, grey, black, violet. Below us the old, old mountains adorn the land like some giant crocodile hide. Deep green ridges, folds, creases, scars. A wilderness punctuated [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Approaching Panama City you can see the Amador causeway reaching across the Pacific, the Bridge of the Americas arcing over the canal, transiting ships and stacks of containers.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
We continue over our misty journey over the Kuna Yala archipelago, stopping en-route to pick-up more passengers.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Kuna Yala is an indigenous reserve located on the northeast shores of Panama. Some 400 islands comprise the scattered Kuna Yala archipelago, seen here on a very misty flight to Panama City. Some of them are so small they can barely accomodate a simple runway. Others have nothing but a few palm trees and a [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
San Carlos, the lesser visited capital of Nicaraguas remote Rio San Juan province, is home to a simple airport and a dirt track runway. Some have described it as an Irish country road. Access is by light plane only, seen here on take-off.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Single propeller Cesna airplane is the fastest way in and out of Nicaraguas remote Río San Juan province. The ride is a little disconcerting, but preferable to the alternative a 9 hour, kidney-crushing jaunt on dirt road. I like the appearance of the planes shadow in this clip.
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Mr Edgar ‘Rasta’ Coulsen is a native of the Caribbean town of San of Juan del Norte – an end of the world settlement perched at the mouth of the Rio San Juan. In this short video interview, Interamericana talked to him about the changes that have taken place in the region since his childhood.
One day, me and my compadres took a trip up the Río Istiam – a tranquil waterway that meanders inland at the isthmus between Ometepe’s two volcanoes, Concepción and Maderas. The river is home to abundant bird life, caimans, turtles and herds of indolent livestock. Many thanks to Jennifer Kennedy and the three Matts – Barwick, Hicks and Ashford, who appear in this video clip.
Via Via is something of a León institution, attracting Nicas and foreigners alike with its buzzing multi-cultural atmosphere, dirt-cheap bottles of rum and rousing Friday night music sets. Amalgama, featured in this video, are an institution in themselves, playing everything from rock ballads to crowd-pleasing revolutionary classics. In this clip they are accompanied by itinerant musician Richard Crandell and his Zimbabwean imbira.
As a poor chele, or white boy, rhythm was never going to come naturally to me. Nonetheless, my militant salsa instructor, Angel, patiently tried to teach me to dance. And when he could be patient no longer, he simply ordered me to the nearest disco…
Granada’s international poetry festival kicked off yesterday, 14th February 2010, with a belting set from Katia Cardenal. Performing at the Plaza Independencia, Katia sang a mixture of rousing folk songs and revolutionary ballads, including a superb homage to the Miskito people of the Atlantic coast (2nd song featured, actually in the Miskito language). Turn up the volume, pour yourself a rum, kick back and enjoy…
The land is scorched and broken. Piles of dark volcanic rubble litter the scene, yet to be properly eroded by sun, wind and rain. Years from now, these rocks will be transformed into fine, fertile silt. But for today, dead, black lava fields cling to the slopes like some monstrous reptilian hide – coarse, inscrutable, alien…
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