Ariel del Fierro

The best concert I have ever been, was the one of Damas Gratis, an argentine group of cumbia, in January of 2020, when the Coronavirus already existed but it wasn't such a big deal as the crisis that we have now. I arrived the night before the concert to the Chiloe island in the city of Castro, without any idea about the concert in that moment, and I met some guys that were in the same place where I was camping and they told me that there will be a concert of Damas Gratis in Dalcahue that is 40 minutes from Castro and they asked if I wanted to join to their group to go together to the concert. My answer was of course yes, because it is one of my favorite groups of cumbia and the concert was for free!  The concert took place in a field open air and very spaceful, there were people selling typical food and drinks from the island and the atmosphere was very familiar with people of any age. Meanwhile, the space was getting more and more crowded, waiting to see the concert. It started w...

For a long time I have wanted to go to Russia. I always heard and read about this country in many movies, news, history books and politics, as a big country with a lot of influence around the world, but with a non typical western culture. This last fact made me more curious about this other side of the World.  As a southamerican, United States had always influenced in our culture, with such a normal thing for us like Hollywood. However, this kind of films I always found very repetitive in their narrative and not so representative of my personal experience of life. So one of the first things I started seeing to explore and understand the russian culture and history, was the sovietic movies and then I couldn't stop! I became a big fan of sovietic style of films, specially because it was totally different as the hollywood style, so it was something completely new for me and also because I felt more identificated with the characters of the russian directors. My favorite movie is "...