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...STATEMENT: Speaking about the Church's role in colonizing Latin America, the Pope said: "The proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbian cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture." He made no mention of the long history of forced conversions and other forms of violence perpetrated by Catholics...
...settle for just one superstar when you can have two? That’s the philosophy behind Beyoncé’s latest video, “Beautiful Liar,” a collaboration with Columbian pop queen Shakira. Beyoncé is turning out hits like a well-oiled machine these days—just look at the recent ubiquity of “Irreplaceable” and “Upgrade U.” But her partnership with Shakira is double the pleasure and double the fun. Although the video starts out slow, the later shots with...
Francisco rocks a Columbian leather messenger bag he bought on eBay. The contents? Books, wallet, cell phone, crushed wasabi peas, and two years worth of loose change. However, his man purse repertoire also includes a larger saddlebag which he hangs on his wall at home. Not be outdone, says Perese, his older brother, a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School, uses his fiancée’s purse...
...Jaguar Paw. His escape through the Mexican rain forest will "feel like a car chase that just keeps turning the screws," says Gibson, flashing one of his patented bug-eyed expressions. True to the no-pain, no-gain credo of his other films, Apocalypto seeks to deliver enough pre-Columbian punishment--like the decidedly non-CGI mauling of a character by an animal--to rival the medieval gore of Braveheart. "I get pretty banged up in some pretty awful ways," says film newcomer Rudy Youngblood, 25, the Comanche and Cree Indian from Texas who plays Jaguar...
...descendants of other New World tribes. "It brings an honesty and a valuable reality to what we?re doing," Gibson tells TIME, which was given the first exclusive look at the Apocalypto production for an upcoming story in the magazine. "These characters have to be utterly believable as pre-Columbian Mesoamericans...