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...Cesar Castillo, newly arrived from Cuba to make his fortune as a bandleader in New York City's thriving Latino music scene, has a prayer for success: "In the name of the mambo and the rumba and the cha-cha-cha." Arne Glimcher, director of the exuberant new movie The Mambo Kings, may have a prayer of his own: In the name of the Cubans and the moguls and the public's whim...
...that means the world to me, and when you first see Cathy Moriarty here, she's wearing the upswept hairdo from Raging Bull." In the audience's mind -- which blends past and present, actress and character -- Moriarty can walk out of Jake La Motta's life and into Cesar Castillo...
...routine coastal patrol last week, Panamanian police noticed two dozen shrimp boats clustered near the island of Cebaco, on the Pacific coast. Suspicious, officers boarded one of the craft and discovered two packages containing 15 kg of cocaine. For Nestor Castillo, police chief of Veraguas province, it was a distressingly familiar episode. "In the past year we are getting flooded with cocaine processed in Colombia," he says. "More than ever before...
...best illustration of the power of kitchen ecologists, Californians will have a chance to vote on the most ambitious environmental package of any state in the country -- a ballot initiative that aims at nothing less than protecting all food, air and water from chemical contamination. Says Aurora Castillo, a member of the environmental group Mothers of East Los Angeles: "We used to say we can't fight the government. But we are the government...
That political declaration is the bittersweet legacy of an environmental degradation so sweeping that it has touched the smallest corners of the world. It is in just such places that people like Castillo have come to rediscover -- in votes, petitions and protests at the county courthouse -- the effectiveness of the most basic forms of democracy...