Marcelo Ballvé was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1975. He grew up in Atlanta, Mexico City, and Caracas. He worked as an AP correspondent in Brazil and the Caribbean. In 2004, he moved back to Buenos Aires. His website is Sancho’s Panza.
Features
Friday, April 4 2008
Beyond Love: The Wisdom of Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez knew that love, like cholera, strikes unexpectedly, renders the body powerless, and is blind to class or race.
Wednesday, October 17 2007
Literature is Inside of Life Just Like a Tree is Inside of Life
Tao Lin has developed his own unmistakable and unique style by utilizing a contagiously honest way of writing. Marcelo Ballvé discusses Bed and Eeeee eee eeee with the author.
Columns
Monday, December 3 2007
Learning from Latin America’s Media Pirates
Today’s illicit “DVD factory” in a corner of Paraguay might tomorrow become a node in a democratic, grassroots distribution network for Latin American media.
Monday, November 5 2007
Living on the Margins
The protagonists of tomorrow are people who are off-line, somehow off the grid, unsophisticated or simply unimpressed by the general spectacle of information-overload and conspicuous consumption.
Friday, September 28 2007
On Being Savage
In today's world, in which most native people live not in forests or on islands but in cities, savagery has become a state of mind more than anything else. Perhaps a little 'savagery' would be good for modern civilization.
Monday, August 27 2007
Playing from the Hip
Jorge Ben always sounds like he's playing from the hip, not from the head, not really from the heart either.
Friday, August 3 2007
Delfin Quishpe: Ecuador's Unlikely YouTube Celebrity
Other than cute animal photos and pornography, the content that enjoys the most popularity on the Internet often has a link to real-world events of generalized significance – like Quishpe's 9/11 video.
Reviews
Wednesday, April 11 2007
Various Artists: Liberacion: Songs of the Cuban Underground [DVD]
This compilation may be one of the purest embodiments of the reggaeton spirit that is widely available.
