Ruxandra Guidi

Ruxandra Guidi is an independent journalist working in radio, print, and multimedia. She reports regularly from the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as the U.S.-Mexico border region. She's produced features and documentaries for the BBC World Service in Spanish, National Public Radio, Walrus magazine, Guernica magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, World Vision ReportDispatches, and Marketplace. She also helped in the production of the radio documentary “Los Homies: Gangs in Central America,” in Honduras, with NPR correspondent Mandalit del Barco.

  • 2007
  • 2:54
  • Bolivia

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Miss Cholita Pageant

By Ruxandra Guidi

The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids. (more)

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