Americas (English Edition)

Bestselling Mexican author and Spanish professor at Georgetown, Univ. - Interview Mastretta is the author of two Mexican bestsellers which are based on revolutionary Mexico. Her protagonists are passionately female who seek self realization in the context of the revolution. War gives these Mexican women options that society otherwise would not allow them.

Artful mapper of the modern dilemma.

Guillermo Kuitca; Argentine painter's abstract paintings filled with imagery - Interview Kuitca is in his early thirties, yet he has a firm reputation in Europe and the US. He began painting at seven and had his first show at 13. His first show abroad was in Belgium in 1985 and he found he could work at home and show abroad successfully. The nature and developement of his art is discussed.

Birds Without a Nest: A Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppression in Peru.

Boleromania.

Cruise stop for Cartagena.

Visiting Cartagena, Colombia - Iojo! The tourist industry in Cartagena, Colombia suffers because of the country's reputation for violence. Hotel occupancy has dropped 70%-80% and most visitors come from Western Europe. The city is mounting a campaign to attract US cruise business with an extensive hotel and mall building project.

Garifuna bicentennial in Honduras.

An African people who trace themselves from an African-Carib Indian cultural admixture, they also live in US cities including Chicago, New Orleans, NYC, and Los Angeles The descendants of African kidnapped and transported to central America in the 1700s celebrated their ancestors' survival, and their liaisons with the Carib people. Dignitaries at the April 1997 festivities included the Honduran president. The history of the Garifuna is related.

In the shelter of the rock.

Vertical rock climbing from the US Western states to Colombia's Andes - Cover Story - Illustration The danger in climbing the high stone faces of the mountains creates in the climber the knowledge of the closeness of happiness to fear, and certainty to doubt. A rock climber of the mountains of the Americas is awed by the splender, the pictographs of past people, and the shelter of the rocks.

Lovesick.

Loving more than one.

Fiction - Adapted form 'Lovesick'

Nicaragua's fast track to prosperity?

Railroad link between oceans proposed The dream that delights the impoverished people of Tola, Nicaragua is that of a foreign-consortium-funded rail link from the Atlantic to the Pacific which would lift the town from its economic nightmare. The link could be an economic integrator, drawing goods for transport from nearby countries.

Notica de un Secuestro.

Reconsquista! The Latin Rock Invasion.

Soaring scales of the silver basin.

The surge in international popularity of Trinidad's music of the poor made on the steel drums The steel drum was born in the slums of Trinidad possibly around the end of World War II. The history and rise of the steel drum is recounted. It is thought to be the only acoustical instrument invented in the 20th century. Enjoyed worldwide, steel bands can have hundreds of instruments.

The glorious renunciation.

Jose de San Martin cedes the field to Simon Bolivar By 1817 much of the Spanish Empire in South America was overcome by the armies of San Martin and Bolivar. Then in 1822, the two generals had a meeting in present-day Ecuador and immediately after San Martin left for Peru rather than risk internal strife, since Bolivar saw him as a rival.

The hemisphere hooks up with CITEL.

Inter-American Telecommunications Commission The OAS' agency CITEL has become the forum wherein the various countries of the Western Hemisphere can link government and private sectors to formulate plans on regulatory and technical matters. Although CITEL is about 100 years old, it was not until 1993 that the private sector was linked to it.

Tito Puente: 50 Years of Swing.

Traditional Music of Peru 4: Lambayeque.