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REVELACIONES: THE ART OF MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO, Friends of Photography Museum, San Francisco. In Bravo's great photos, a modern eye schooled in Surrealism meets a timeless place soaked in the myths of church, folklore and revolution. Yet this uncanny locale is still recognizable as the harsh and tender world of Mexico. Now this is magical realism. Through...
...through. Dona Violeta, as she is always called, lost a husband to political violence, and her family was split along political lines: two of her children are ardent Sandinistas and two are just as ardent anti-Sandinistas. Yet through it all, Chamorro has kept her family together. Says Emilio Alvarez, a longtime friend of the Chamorro family's: "If she could reconcile her own family, she could do it for the country as well." Nicaragua remains in severe economic crisis, but so far Chamorro has stymied the Sandinistas with her motherly style. She ended the contra war in less than...
Next on trial will be Humberto Alvarez Machain, a Guadalajara physician accused of giving medicine to Camarena during the torture sessions so he would survive until his questioning was complete. The capture of Alvarez, who was tracked down by Mexican bounty hunters and delivered to DEA agents in El Paso, has caused a rift between the U.S. and Mexico. The Mexican government is demanding the arrest and extradition of the DEA agent who masterminded the snatch. Retorts U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh: "It's a mistake for the government of Mexico not to cooperate ((in bringing)) to justice those persons...
...give the police stems from their even greater fear of trigger- happy gangs. Says Regina Jones, a black publicity consultant and former police department radio operator who lives in South Central Los Angeles: "People are frightened of the police, but they are more frightened of our own youth." Epigmenio Alvarez, a factory worker, complains that roadblocks set up by police to disrupt the movement of gang members and drug dealers in mostly Hispanic East L.A. have been a mixed blessing. "The narcos close this street today, and the droguros move to the next one," he says. "Meanwhile, my kids...
This week's cover features five twentysomething adults. From left, they are: John Neubauer, 27, of Baltimore, a teacher; Raul Alvarez, 23, an auto mechanic in Ventura, Calif.; Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver, a communications and business student; Sonja Henderson, 23, an art student in Chicago; and David Robinson, 25, a graduate student in English at the University of California, Berkeley...