Monica Gutierrez
Journalist, Content Strategist
Monica Gutierrez is an independent Journalist and Content Strategist based in New York City. Experienced leading robust content operations, as well as national and international newsrooms.
PROJECTS
The Huffington Post
Crisis and resistance in Puerto Rico: the question of sustainability and sovereignty
3.4 million islanders are stuck in emergency mode, exhausted and in the dark, resisting as survivalists without a steady vital flow of power and clean water. Considering both sustainability and sovereignty is esencial to effectively tackle the emergency.
The Huffington Post
For Puerto Rico, The Time Is Now
Six days after receiving the full frontal impact of a catastrophic category 5 hurricane like no other in the past century, the island subsists, holding its collective breath in the dark and off the grid, with no power and not enough drinking water, food, cash or fuel. Puerto Ricans are shaken, stranded, flooded, devastated and pleading for help amid an unfolding crisis about to reach the seven-days mark.
The Huffington Post
Trump’s Russian Roulette
It is easy to picture Donald Trump playing Russian roulette at this point...
HuffPost Voces
El argentino que llevamos dentro | Monica Gutierrez
Que Gustavo fue -tal y como quedó declarado y demostrado en su trabajo final- simple y llanamente una fuerza de la natura, no hace falta explicarlo más, porque ya queda clarísimo. Cerati vive en el aire, en los acordes de una guitarra, en toda América Latina ya convertida en una enorme ciudad furiosa, en las matemáticas de su poesía, en la hermosa Buenos Aires, en la conciencia y los deseos de dos, y creo que no exagero si digo que tres, generaciones de hispano pensantes.
The Huffington Post
Fear and Loathing in the Island that Doesn't Exist
Puerto Rico is by culture part of Latin America and by politics part of the US. But at the same time the Island is not a Latin American country neither a State of the Union. That is why it is trapped in an impossible situation without real instruments to combat the very particular characteristics of her current situation. This time around the US cannot be the solution, because the US is an integral part of the problem. Applying the war on drugs to Puerto Rico is proving to be like pulling a gun to our own head.
The Huffington Post
Frontiers of the Global Village
I know of a Dominican woman who crossed the United States frontier illegally, looking for a better life for her and her family in Puerto Rico. She paid a smuggler a couple thousand dollars to cross the treacherous Mona channel on a small wooden boat, known as a "yola," with fourteen other souls. After being lost at sea for some time she is unable to quantify, the man in charge threw a sick person overboard to stop his unnerving whining. They almost capsized in waters infested with sharks. When food supplies ran out, a mother offered her breast milk to her fellow travelers and saved them from dehydration. Miraculously, they made it.
The Huffington Post
Spring in the Desert: Crisis in Mali
Not too long ago, traveling on a "pinasse" up the Niger River from Mopti to Timbuktu often rewarded visitors with an idyllic glimpse of the f...
The Huffington Post
What Is It About Roberto Paradise? | Monica Gutierrez
What Is It About Roberto Paradise? | Monica Gutierr...
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80grados.net » Otro “face book”
Si bien es cierto que Facebook tiene unos 845 millones de usuarios activos -casi una séptima parte de la población mundial- para nadie es un secreto que no es el aglutinador de los menos afortunados. ImprimirComparte 80grados:ShareEmailFacebookTwitterGoogle +1TumblrPinterestLinkedInReddit
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Colombia Gives Peace a Chance
"The stars are aligned to end the conflict in Colombia", at least for the moment, said a cautious but optimist President Juan Manuel Santos to the local "Semana" magazine this past weekend, only days ...
80grados.net
SOS infantil
La Tierra cuenta con unos siete billones de habitantes y actualmente más de la mitad de la gente vive en ciudades. El mundo urbano es sinónimo de progreso, pero -según un reporte re...
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Opinion: Playing politics with the English language in Puerto Rico
For the island’s residents, language has status and identity repercussions. By Mónica Gutiérrez There is something fierce and delicious, almost edible, in the alchemic ways of Puerto Rican Spanish....
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Abrazar el arcoíris
Nadie habrá dejado de observar cómo a menudo, por más moderno y abierto que sea el entorno, las parejas gay son mucho más comedidas que las heterosexuales a la hora de exteriorizar sus sentimientos en...