El otro portal

"El otro portal collects 34 texts published throughout 2016, and that of some of the most representative events of a turbulent year, both inside as outside of Ecuador. Topics such as cultural heritage; the Panama Papers; tourism 'selfies' and 'likes'; the deportation of Cuban citizens from Ecuador; the protest as an act criminalized by governments or the growing index of femicides; historical episodes like the Jewish holocaust and its aftermath still alive in Auschwitz; dramatic chapters like the earthquake of 16 April on the Ecuadorian coast; a chronicle hours after the tragedy in Pedernales, the town closest to the epicenter; or the personal story in a Ecuadorian spa, through which the lack of services is revealed basic, abuse by the tourism sector and the consequences of neglect by the authorities a few months after the earth motorcycle."--