Wonderful Christ the Redeemer.

• Author: Leake, Eva S.
• Position: UPFRONT - Letter to the editor

I have just received the June issue of Americas. What great pictures of Christ the Redeemer has Mark Holston offered us, from the panorama of Rio as background for the magnificent statue, to the close-up of the extended hand, where one can clearly see the small triangle-shaped pieces on the surface of the concrete form. My husband and I visited Rio de Janeiro in the late 1970s but we could only view the statue from the edge of the Tijuca Forest since our tour bus had to turn back because of a serious malfunction.

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