Holy Christ! Christ the Redeemer, that is! Located at the peak of the 2,300 ft Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the fantastico city of Rio, this iconic 10-story statue is recognized the world over as one of the Seven Wonders of the New World. It is also a great venue to chat about the importance of Catholicism in Latin America, and the future of the faith in Brazil, in the region, and the wider world. Blessed are all ye that click here!
Live from the War Memorial in downtown Buenos Aires…for a conflict alternatively named Guerra de las Malvinas or the Falkland War. It’s the most recent and most infamous actual war in Latin America…..that you never heard of! Back in 1982 Argentina and the United Kingdom had a full-on shoot-out over a bunch of sheep-covered rocks in the South Atlantic, and this dinky little remote conflict may yet rear its ugly head again in the modern era. Learn a bit about it here!
Grasslands galore! Just outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, lies the center of one of the biggest, richest, and most productive grasslands on the planet: the Pampas! The Pampas (from Quechua: pampa, meaning “plain”) are fertile South American lowlands, covering almost 300,00 square miles. These temperate plains (much like the prairies of Midwest USA) encouraged me to don my Pampas poncho and pontificate on this gaucho paradise!
The Professor saddles up in the Pampas of Argentina to get his gaucho on! The term gaucho is commonly used to describe skilled horsemen/cattle-herders of South American pampas, Gran Chaco, or Patagonian grasslands…found principally in parts of Argentina, Rio Grande do Sul in the south of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, eastern and southern Bolivia and Southern Chile. From atop a horse himself, the Professor schools you on the nationalistic and symbolic importance of this awesome gaucho culture.
Greetings from one of the most scenic cities on the world! Cape Town, South Africa has one of the most distinct and recognizable cityscapes/geographies of Africa, and the Professor climbed a mountain to give you a physical view of the place, while giving you a cultural overview of the place and its role in today’s South Africa.
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