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...center through CAP. “You can see what real-life child advocates are doing.”Though CAP has not completely convinced all of its participants to pursue a career in child advocacy, it has nonetheless exposed many students to a new field of law.Carlos A.L. Aqui, a second-year law student who took CAP’s clinical course, worked in the Philippines with young women forced to labor as domestic workers. Though Aqui says he isn’t ready to commit his career to this area, the program exposed him to an area that...
...next morning, TiVo had also taped Married with Children; Malibu, CA; El Chavo del Ocho; and Aqui Esta la Chilindrina. Not wanting to insult my new home appliance, and not speaking any Spanish, I first watched Malibu, CA, which is about the zany antics of a group of Baywatch-y teens. I'm sure there were similarly interesting plot lines offered by El Chavo, but I used TiVo's superfast-forward and stopped only on the cleavage shots. Muy bueno...
...drop the cake-bearing girls on the corner just past Guanabo's main drag and pick up a much older woman, 60 or so, who's been visiting her mother and needs to go just a little ways out of town. Ten minutes later--Aqui, Aqui!--she gets out. She smiles thank-you, and we smile goodbye--and again we're empty. We don't like to be empty. Through the Cuban countryside we feel ashamed to have the back seat unpeopled--all this room we have, all this fuel. It's getting dark, and as the roads...
Jose Alberto Potuombo is sitting in La Atarraya, the cafe he manages across the street from the great bay, attempting to hear Fidel Castro on his Korean- made boom box. But there are distractions. A crowd is forming on the seawall across the way. "Ven aqui! Ven, mira!" yell the little children, and people are indeed coming and looking. Now there is a crowd of 70, staring down into the water. They laugh, they cheer. Some drivers stop, others honk and yell, "Balseros! Balseros! A Miami! A Miami!" (Rafters! To Miami!) Potuombo scans the scene sourly. "Let the bastards...
Last January farm worker Candido Gayoso was found in a field, feet and hands bound, a paper bag over his head. On the bag was scrawled "No mas aqui," ungrammatical Spanish for "Don't come back." The owner of a market frequented by farmhands was found guilty of assaulting Gayoso. In February Kenneth Kovzelove, 18, was sentenced to 50-years-to-life imprisonment in the shooting deaths of two field hands. He matter-of-factly admitted killing them simply because they were Mexican...