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Blog Entries by Karin Badt from 08/2009

Revisioning the "Poor" Mexican

| Posted 08.06.2009
Read More: Taxi Drivers, Mexican Immigrants, Puerto Escondido, Casamar, News

My conversation during a cool summery taxi ride back to my apartment in Puerto Escondido.

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Surfing Storytelling in Mexico

| Posted 08.12.2009
Read More: Border Crossing, Surfing, Puerto Escondido, Mexico, Magic, Surf Instructor, Positive Thinking, Surf Lessons, News

Julio, my smiling surfer instructor, has gorgeous tattoos on his arms. One says: "Dios es magia, y Magia es Dios!"

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Meeting a Girl FARC Guerrilla in Bogotá

| Posted 08.29.2009
Read More: Farc, Programa De Atencion Humanitario Al Desmovilizado, Demobilization Program, Bogotá, Guerillas, Colombia, Child Soldiers, News

My image of a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla was not a small-framed pretty girl in a jean-jacket, hands bangled in silver rings and white-sparkling nail-polish.

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