Nico's blog

Since I entered university I have thought about it: the Journalism career should be much shorter. Today it lasts five years, but I think it should be three. The two extra years are not justified. There are many things I would like to change about this. First, I believe that the link with the street is essential to develop in journalism. Knowing how to write is not enough, you must have contact with the communities and that is built in a long time. It may be because of the pandemic and the protests, but my experience in college has lacked this. Also, I think the curriculum has fallen short and journalism has advanced very fast. We need more courses in digital journalism and Human Rights electives. Along with this, it is necessary that the Institute of Communication and Image progress to become a faculty, which has more resources and infrastructure. We need bigger classrooms and more green areas on campus. I believe that the pandemic has opened a great opportunity to improve the...

I'd love to travel to the future and see how Latin America is doing. We are one of the poorest continents around the globe and in constant search for development, so it would be interesting to see how much we have advanced in inequality, democracy and justice. Maybe in 2051, 30 years from today, things would be very different than today. Maybe the water in the seas rose, the snow on the volcanoes melted, and the trees in the mountains caught fire. I just hope it is not like that and global warming has not increased. I would also like to meet the leaders of those days. Will they be people or aliens? Will there be more women in positions of power? What will happen to the representation of native peoples? And the dissent? There are many questions that I would like to solve on my journey to the future. If I traveled to the future, I would not want to stay there. I would like to use what I saw to define my actions in the present. Maybe I would change my diet or my beliefs. I could ...