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Stories by Marga Ortigas

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“Sami del Samwich” and Surviving the Colombian Drug Cartels: (Part 2)

Colombia Marga OrtigasSeptember 18, 2017 People

Part 1: Genesis The Exodus Samuél Vásquez Martín, aka Sami, was eventually offered what he saw as his ticket out of the drug-cartel-dominated world in …

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“Sami del Samwich” and Surviving the Colombian Drug Cartels: (Part 1)

Colombia Marga OrtigasSeptember 14, 2017 People Places

He blended into the crowd quite effortlessly. Not too tall, not too big. Not too loud, and not at all brash. It was easy to …

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Seeing Red in the Glittering World: Reflections of Truth, Beauty, & the Divine in the Arizona Desert

Arizona Marga OrtigasAugust 25, 2017 Places

Long ago, when First Man and First Woman emerged from the Earth, the goddess Spider Woman taught them how to weave.  She constructed a loom …

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Håfa Adai: Dispatch From The Pacific Island Where America’s Day Begins

Guam Marga OrtigasAugust 12, 2017 Places

FRONTLINE The trek through the forest was not an easy one.  It was hot, and humid; rocky, and steep.  The terrain, though beautiful, was punishing …

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City of Stars: Homeless in Hollywood

Los Angeles Marga OrtigasJuly 25, 2017 People Places

Every day, the unforgiving sun glares down on this city of dreamers.  It weighs, the brightness of the day.  Heavy with opportunities that many feel …

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Finding the Holy Grail: A Quest for Truth in Spain

Spain Marga OrtigasJuly 1, 2017 Places

It often begins with getting lost, doesn’t it?  And Barrio Carmen, in Valencia’s Old Town, was a very pretty place to do just that.  Its …

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Smog: Working through Heartbreak in Beijing

China Marga OrtigasApril 11, 2017 Prose

The grieving never stops.  That much I can tell you. With certainty. It hits you when you see their name… on an old email, a …

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At Majeed’s: Art, Truth, & War in Baghdad

Iraq Marga OrtigasFebruary 4, 2017 People Places Prose

The afternoon was overcast. The way most December afternoons are in Baghdad. A soft mud-yellow breeze blowing against a beige sky. The brown date palms …

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Voices from the Northern Mariana Islands

Northern Mariana Islands Marga OrtigasAugust 31, 2016 Places

Time moves with a stoic certainty in the Northern Mariana Islands.  As if that part of the Pacific is so far removed from the rest …

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Beyond Politics and Poverty: The Storms That Lash Brazil

Brazil Marga OrtigasMarch 19, 2016 Places

Waters of March It hasn’t been raining more than ten minutes when streets begin to flood. Thick and murky, it falls in corrugated sheets. Water. …

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