<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Camille Aguilar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Camille Aguilar]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:19:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.camille-aguilar.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[MAXIMA Film Review (Originally Published in PTP Magazine in 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[MAXIMA Film Review — Fighting for Indigenous Peoples Worldwide https://www.picturethispost.com/maxima/ MAXIMA begins with stunning views of the sweeping Peruvian highlands. Aerial footage takes viewers through the Andean mountainside with clear blue lakes and lush forests. Daylight streams through wispy, low hanging cirrus clouds while birds sing in chorus with orchestral music. After scenic naturistic establishing shots, we encounter a pensive native woman whose face is lit by the burnt...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/maxima-film-review-originally-published-in-ptp-magazine-in-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2dd1c4418318a8f7e4ecda</guid><category><![CDATA[English Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:56:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_dfc5179d5d3b44e9a8681666a022f787~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_563,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quetzaltepec (written 2017)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The boys were handed 15 yards of braided polypropylene rope, a serrated knife, dried meat, and plátanos secos carefully wrapped in a woman’s headscarf. As Elio packed these items into his small military-issued backpack, Omar and the troop leader stood silently. Words were not exchanged; words were not needed. The only thing being traded at a higher value than words that summer were MP5s – and plane tickets. Either way, the Asociación of Salvadoran Boy Scouts had nonexpendable funds. The boys...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/quetzaltepec</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c845a183b1bdc001c582022</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:28:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_1b75de840b78477e98b74848f4978254~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_667,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 21]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / Inmigrantes no inscriben a sus hijos en programas de comida por temor de ICE ¿donde? / Estados Unidos ¿La fuente? / Diario Las Américas  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:      Varios padres inmigrantes no han inscrito a sus hijos en programas de ayuda social gratis porque temen la deportación. Ellos tienen miedo de que el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Sociales de los Estados Unidos compartirá la información que provean los inmigrantes a la migra (ICE). Aunque las organizaciones...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/18/lectura-21</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b90</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fd90b9828c9dd350821a0f5e0e881219.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Squat (NOVA Fronteir Film Festival) Review (Originally published in PTP Magazine in 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nova Frontier Film Festival Presents THE SQUAT – Immigration Means Survival https://www.picturethispost.com/nova-frontier-film-festival-presents-the-squat-review/ Visit Latin America, the Middle East, and the African Diaspora through Nova Frontier Film Festival Films We first read the words of Warsan Shire on a simple black and white title card –“No one leaves home unless home is a mouth of a shark,” and fear the imagination of 50 rows of razor sharp teeth closing in. Slowly we are brought...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/the-squat-nova-fronteir-film-festival-review-originally-published-in-ptp-magazine-in-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2dd2fe418318a8f7e4eef3</guid><category><![CDATA[English Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:01:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_b052d88358d842138e45bc141b2ee922~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_888,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting For the Barbarians Film Review (originally published in PTP Magazine in 2021)]]></title><description><![CDATA[WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS Film Review — Who Are the Savages  https://www.picturethispost.com/waiting-for-the-barbarians-review/ Waiting for the Barbarians opens with arid grasslands encompassed by the snow-tipped mountain ranges of Central Asia. Situated on this infertile land is an adobe settlement. Napping guards, clothed in the tones of their sand-cloaked surroundings, line the battlements of the town’s gate. Inside the adobe buildings, an old man with a gentle countenance writes at his...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/waiting-for-the-barbarians-film-review-originally-published-in-ptp-magazine-in-2021</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2dcfb128513bd3b38c798a</guid><category><![CDATA[English Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:50:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_3be1ef015bd84e3a83c36b4d148a8b0c~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_667,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affluenza Film Review (originally published in PTP Magazine 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[OVID.tv Presents AFFLUENZA Review — High Consumption Society https://www.picturethispost.com/ovid-tv-presents-affluenza-review/ Before coming to our title screen, filmmaker John de Graaf opens with a scene from a spoof of a once popular soap opera Lives of Our Days. A patient in a surgical gown and comically ornate jewelry begs her doctor for a pill to fix her disaffection. Regretfully, the doctor informs his patient that she is suffering from affluenza; ironically calling it “the new...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/affluenza-film-review-originally-published-in-ptp-magazine-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2dce7f28513bd3b38c7779</guid><category><![CDATA[English Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:44:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_4f0ec28564de414e8e5befe914bfc690~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_764,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umps, plumps and mumps (Dr Seuss Parody) (written 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[One snuffleump Two snuffleump Red snuffleump  Dead snuffleump Sour snufflegrump  Fairly hairy snufflerump Open carry scuffleump. Crystal methheleump Say! What a lot of  Sickly snuffleump there are! Yes. Some have been around, And some are 6 feet underground. Some have teeth And most do not. You see, we see While just about nothing is uniformal here, Death in Qwertyuiop is rather normal. Some are sad, like the one with no mom or dad. Some are thin. And some are globular! From here to there,...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/umps-plumps-and-mumps-dr-seuss-parody-written-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2dc4e600dbe48b1c77d6de</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:00:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_1449e06fda204e2289f6f8c4470e4c37~mv2_d_4032_3024_s_4_2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Proper Battle (A Telltale Heart Parody) (written 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[IT’S TRUE! OF COURSE IT IS! I SAVED US, I TRULY SAVED THIS CAMP! But why will you not celebrate with me, why must you be so sour? So dour all of the time you cannot see that I have done our world a favor. Can you not see that I am perfectly aware of the results of my actions? Off my rocker? Look what I have done; for me, for you, for all of posterity! Indeed, my victory has properly aligned my good character. My inspired deeds have occasioned the repetition of my story, so as to prove you all...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/a-proper-battle-a-telltale-heart-parody</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2dc49628513bd3b38c6703</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:59:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_e94aeb3bdd774ff6a588d8d41e20c033~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_554,h_554,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purrsia (Gertrude Stein Parody) (written 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tepid attraction and glacial initiative,  lack initiative initiate not intuitive intiate what you wish to inact, intact in fact What do you want, do you? what what do you want want you? Tell me what you really tell you want Is chicken no longer your flavor? Chicken has potential to be flavorful Do we, your butlers, No longer fit the glass glass  glass glass glass glass slipper? Glass glass glasss glassy eyed class  Pink paw, pretty pinky link pink pink playful, pads hide dirty secrets And...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/purrsia-gertrude-stein-parody-written-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2dc43544c7bef1d0310735</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:58:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_56159dabead94adfbc2ef7e9b1bac668~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_956,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impulses (written 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of room to speak on impulses. They define most actions. You see, whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right. So, I always think I can, and I think that’s the way to live. My coach would tell me “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Or, perhaps that was something I read on the wall in seventh grade math. I used to write the witticisms in chalk on the driveway. If the neighborhood couldn’t see what I saw, I’d teach them myself. Follow one pink arrow, you’ll learn of...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/impulses</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5fe8891dae0017f21dfb</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:51:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_70ee26d6f5b844879c72ac97bbdb1bf7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Things I Carry (written 2017)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I carry papers, pens, and erasers. I carry blank sheets of paper and I carry papers filled. Words crossed, highlighted and bolded communicate mental preoccupations. I carry the weight of my limitations, the things that remind me what I can and cannot do. I carry the weight of knowledge of things, things I should not know and should not tell. I carry the weight of memory. Memory of ancestors murdered in the name of intimidation, slaughtered for deviant imaginations, assassinated for having...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/the-things-i-carry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c845e4b33db79001b5d5089</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:47:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a9420_0c3dc6304be14c28a13ca5eec571b407~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts on Identity (written 2016)]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is difference?   What is similarity? Are there definitions for these words or are am I asking some philosophical question? I sat in my school’s meeting house as my mind raced with questions. The facilitator had asked the group us to divide into “white” and “of color.” My thick fingers gripped the black denim covering my – even thicker – thighs. My feet tapped back and forth, playing their part in the colonial room’s deafening symphony. My peer’s breaths escaped in and out of their mouths...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/thoughts-on-identity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c844e66ba53af001cc8e243</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:19:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 24]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / Ciudad Neza, el gigantesco suburbio de Ciudad de México que quiere mejorar la reputación de la policía mexicana ¿donde? / México ¿La fuente? / BBC Mundo  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:      Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, o decimos Ciudad Neza, es un suburbio de la Ciudad de México. Neza es uno de los lugares más poblados del mundo. Como muchas ciudades de México, es conocida por la presencia de redes criminales y carteles desenfrenados por el gobierno. En la actualidad, las autoridades de...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/25/lectura-24</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b8d</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 22:18:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4f851c2d4cf34457bfc71c793cd847b7.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_853,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 23]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / Asesinan a candidata a diputada en México ¿donde? / México ¿La fuente? / El País  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:      Dulce María Rebaja, una "precandidata a diputada por el oficialista PRI" en un municipio en el estado mexicano Guerrero, fue asesinada. Ella y su primo, un policía de 30 años, apareció en una camioneta al lado de la carretera.    Rebaja desapareció en la tarde el sábado, con su primo y su tía cuando regresaban de un evento en la capital del estado. Según la...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/23/lectura-23</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b8e</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2018 20:32:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/017e9c867aa9c699309489938bdc6dfd.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 22]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / CIDH pide a Venezuela respetar derechos en marco del proceso electoral ¿donde? / Venezuela ¿La fuente? / El Tiempo  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:     En Santo Domingo, con una audiencia pública, bajo la protección de las autoridades dominicanas, representantes por la sociedad civil de Venezuela, denunciaron violaciones a los derechos humanos en su país. En sus palabras el gobierno venezolano usa los militares "como herramienta de represión y persecución política". Ellos...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/21/lectura-22</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b8f</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2018 20:38:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/36d9cd6ee81f4d8a8f172880af9b4bc0.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 20]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / Las manifestaciones del día de la madre en Nicaragua cierran con al menos 13 muertos mientras Ortega advierte: "Aquí nos quedamos" ¿donde? / Nicaragua ¿La fuente? / BBC Mundo  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:      Ayer, el día de las madres, fue una de las manifestaciones más grandes de los últimos 40 años en Nicaragua. Aunque las manifestantes estuvieron pacíficas, un grupo de las manifestantes en una zona universitaria fue atacado a balazos. Ahora, según el Centro Nicaragüense de...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/16/lectura-20</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b91</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2018 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ec062fda0e55417b853c6936c61b2ec1.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 19]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / Por crisis carcelaria, Medellín pide ayuda al Gobierno ¿donde? / Colombia ¿La fuente? / El Tiempo  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:      En Medellín hay una crisis carcelaria. Significa que en las cárceles hay demasiados presos. Solo el año pasado, es decir más de 20.500 crimínales se habían capturado en Medellín. Según la noticia, algunas cárceles tienen números de detenidos 200 por ciento más que sus propias capacidades legales.   Porque no hay suficiente espacio en las cárceles,...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/14/lectura-19</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b92</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2018 04:08:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/291c04b5dc38419e8c6d4e2d08214926.png/v1/fit/w_600,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 18]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / Cruz Roja: Refugiados venezolanos sufren altos niveles de malnutrición ¿donde? / Colombia ¿La fuente? / Diario Las Américas  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:     Según la Cruz Roja, la salud de los refugiados venezolanos que llegan a Cúcuta, Colombia está severo. Ellos llegan a Colombia a pie en condiciones terribles y calor insufrible. Según Emanuele Capobianco, el jefe de Salud de la Federación Internacional de la Cruz Roja (FICR) la situación necesita "una respuesta mayor de la...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/10/lectura-18</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b93</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 04:57:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/31e2e9a7bf5b465887db7407f729ddb8.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 17]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / A prisión un hombre en España por presunto abuso sexual contra una cubana ¿donde? / España ¿La fuente? / Diario Las Américas  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:      Un hombre está encarcelado por abusar sexualmente la hija de su pareja por siete años. Según la chica, realmente 19 años, ella fue víctima desde que tenía 13 años. El propio día él era detenido y ahora no todos los detalles son públicos.  MIS REACCIONES:     Cada vez más las noticias que leí no tienen ningún periodista....]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/09/lectura-17</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b94</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 04:29:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fc3e0993227042fda78784180f4a3dbc.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lectura 16]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿como se llama? / El caso de "la manada de Chile": la mujer que denuncia que fue violada por un grupo de hombres vestidos de hinchas de fútbol ¿donde? / Chile ¿La fuente? / BBC Mundo  EL RESUMEN DEL ARTICULO:      Una mujer mayor de 25 años estaba caminando cerca del Estado Nacional de Santiago en Chile cuando era emboscado por cinco hombres. Ellos la llevaran a una área oscura donde la violaron y robaron. Los hombres les dejaron la mujer allá y cuando era encontrado después de la agresión...]]></description><link>https://www.camille-aguilar.com/single-post/2018/05/07/lectura-16</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f8a5e200de8920017451b95</guid><category><![CDATA[Spanish Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 04:50:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9d22be1e895542fea3215714f60b79b9.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Camille Aguilar</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>