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Bluefields street scene, Nicaragua
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Bluefields is Nicaraguas most bustling Caribbean port town. The cultural flavour here is very different to western Nicaragua. English is widely spoken by the predominantly Afro-Caribbean population, but Hispanic and Miskito communities also occupy the city and surrounding region in large numbers.
Christmas fireworks, Granada, Nicaragua
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Christmas in Nicaragua is attended with much incendiary glee. I shot this video from my doorstep in Granada. It shows the locals celebrating with toros cohetes or firework bulls – a fun and wonderfully hazardous practice. The bulls are models, not real bulls, often waved in the air by dancers or inebriated party-goers.
Light aircraft, San Carlos, Nicaragua
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.
Take off in a light aircraft, San Carlos, Nicaragua
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.
March of the red ants
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
We’re frozen in time on the highway when my driver starts pummelling his horn, unleashing a river of obscenities. “Hijo de puta! Move it, move it, move it!” Beside us, an almost imperceptible procession of red ants scrambles in the gutter, clambering bodies illuminated by muggy yellow street lamps. They hold their spoils aloft – [...]
Take off in a light aircraft
Wednesday, August 12, 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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Located in Nicaragua’s most remote and disconnected province – the North Atlantic Autonomous Region – the diminutive settlement of Waspam is the centre of the Miskito universe. This short video clip, featuring music from Miskito musician Li Lamni, was shot on take-off from town’s modest airstrip.
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…
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