Jon Lindsay Miles

I write and translate – which comes to the same thing. Immigrant Press is a not-for-profit publishing house, which I fund by provoking English conversation at a local University outpost. I have just completed the translation of Haroldo Conti's “South-East” [Sudeste, 1962], which I publish this month of May 2013, with Immigrant Press in a first volume of a new Library of Translation and with an Afterword by John King.

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Latest posts by Jon Lindsay Miles

Latin America: Art from the Colonial Period in 2.0

We present a sample of the numerous blogs, videos and internet sites dedicated to promoting knowledge about colonial period art, a common artistic denominator for the majority of the American continent, the individual indigenous cultures of which first adopted and then adapted as their own.

15 May 2012

Panama: President Martinelli's Confrontation with Journalist Generates Controversy

President Ricardo Martinelli called a press conference to clear up the matter of the scandal connecting him with the Italian businessman Lavitola, but he ended up in a confrontation with a journalist, making reference to a past drug problem. Social networks immediately reverberated with shows of contempt for and condemnation of the President's words.

23 April 2012