Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Catapult, The Common, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, JMWW, River Teeth, Literal Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.
Amsterdam wants to take a series of measures to curb nightlife tourism. In the proposed reforms, foreign tourists who only come to the city for alcohol, […]
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In the race for climate neutral solutions to mobility, a group of Dutch students from the Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) invented a zero-emissions car that […]
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has been called the worst airport ever due to its mismanagement of the increased passenger influx. The lack of staff the airport has […]
At the 2022 Monaco Yacht Show, U-Boat Worx, a Dutch yacht building company, revealed designs for the Nautilus, a superyacht that can also function as a […]
As chaos returns to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport once more, passengers waiting hours in line to get to security call it the “worst airport ever”. Despite measures […]
Amsterdam Schiphol’s airport announced last week it is extending the daily passenger cap until at least March 2023. As a result, airlines are either moving their […]
Schiphol Airport has extended the cap on the number of passengers until early 2023. In a statement released last Thursday, the airport announced that travelers’ numbers […]
The Netherlands will increase the passenger flight tax to almost €30 from 1 January 2023 to discourage people taking flights thus opting for more environmentally friendly […]
On Friday, 9 September, a national strike of the Dutch rail workers will see all the trains of the NS national transportation company stopped. Moreover, the […]
The Tui Group has partnered with Green City Trip, a Dutch startup offering rail travel across Europe, to create the Ski Express nigh train, connecting the […]
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has announced that it will compensate passengers who missed their flights due to long security queues. Schiphol will introduce a scheme for passengers […]