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Cuevas never believed it had. But how does a mother convince her relatives that she's right when all they can hear is her grief? "We thought she was just traumatized by the fire," says her brother Evaristo de Jesus. And why, six years later, did a Pennsylvania politician and then the police decide to take this mother's instinct seriously? "I must admit, when Luz first came to me with this story, I had trouble believing her," says Angel Cruz, the Pennsylvania state representative who relayed Cuevas' story to Philadelphia law-enforcement officials. "Luz taught me that second-guessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back From The Blaze | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

FROM TOP: EVARISTO SA/AFP;ADRIANO MACHADO/AP; JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War On Poverty | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

...shutout innings against Team USA on June 29. Third baseman Omar Linares, the player long and most coveted by major league scouts, told Lawes, "It's a personal decision. Each person must live his own life-style. But [every Cuban player] is more dedicated now to our purpose." Evaristo Ruiz, head of Cuba's baseball delegation, likened Arrojo's defection to an injury or illness. "He is replaced," said Ruiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBAN LONG JUMP | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

This rain on the Columbus parade is nothing, though, compared with the storm of outrage that the prospect of quincentennial partying has unleashed among the anti-Columbians. "Our celebration is to oppose," says Evaristo Nugkuag, a member of the Aguaruna people, who is president of the Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples' Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), an umbrella group in Lima, Peru. On Oct. 7, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, about 1,000 members of COICA and other groups, representing 24 countries in the Western Hemisphere, will gather at a "Continental Encounter" meeting. One of the purposes is to determine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Columbus | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

That perception has started to change, thanks in large part to Evaristo Nugkuag, 41, a Peruvian who has emerged as the leading spokesman for the indigenous people of the Amazon. Born of the Aguaruna tribe and educated by missionaries, he watched firsthand the encroachment of loggers, miners and now drug traffickers on traditional Indian lands. Today, as president of a group representing 229 tribes, he argues persuasively that the best way to save the rain forest is to make the Indians its caretakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saviors Of the Planet | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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