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Remembering Jorge Luis Borges On His Birthday

Born on the 24th of august in 1899 in Buenos Aires Jorge Luis Borges became one of the most unique literary figures of the twentieth century.

He was the master of the short story. Borges wrote tales of Argentina’s criminal underground and created fictional worlds that captured his wonder with the concept of infinitude. In his poems he writes about the unique culture and traditions of Buenos Aires, where he lived until his death in 1986. 

Many see it as an injustice that one of Latin America’s greatest writers (more…)

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Women Rule Latin America

In the whole world, San Marino, a little city state in Italy, is the country with the most female leaders of state in the country’s history. But if we look to the global picture we see that Latin America is actually the continent with the most amount of female leaders.

There are currently four women ruling Latin American countries. Nevertheless, this is nothing new for the countries in this region, which cannot be said, in North America and Europe. North American countries have simply never had a female head of state.
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