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...even the pipa, however, could save seven-month-old Antonio Garcia, who choked to death in Anapra this spring. The slum's sallow air had filled his tiny lungs with dust and disease. Dr. Gustavo Martinez, director of a private Juarez hospital, watched helplessly as the infant writhed in pain before he finally suffocated. "You don't ever forget the face of a seven-month-old who doesn't want to live anymore," he says. When Martinez went afterward to see the family, he found their one-room shanty, built of pallets and cardboard, open on all sides...
...Latino producers, the diversity controversy provided brief entree. To a point. Jeff Valdez, producer of Nickelodeon's The Brothers Garcia, says he began to get calls from networks that had blown him off before. "So I pitched three shows and never got a return call," he says. "Now they can say they met with a real Hispanic and move on with their business...
...fact, one of the few lights for Hispanics on English-language TV is children's TV, especially Nickelodeon, which has two Hispanic family sitcoms, The Brothers Garcia and Taina. And Nick's Dora the Explorer, a cartoon for small children with a Latina heroine and a smattering of Spanish, also runs on CBS's Saturday morning, where it has proved...
Colombia, birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many of the fables about El Dorado, has long been a land where people search for the extraordinary. So two years ago, singer-guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist-producer Hector Buitrago of the Colombian rock duo Aterciopelados (ah-tair-see-oh-peh-lah-dose) trekked to Colombia's Putumayo region, befriended a local shaman and joined in what Buitrago calls a healing ritual. "They make this drink, and everyone has it," says Echeverri. "You get terribly sick and get in touch with the divine part of yourself and see beautiful things...
...extended Portuguese family living through and after World War II. Told through the varying points of view of an omnipresent narrator and the story’s protagonist, The Painter of Birds is a coming of age story much like Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Jorge’s characters, like Alvarez’s, live in a large family compound under the guidance of a stern father who watches in pain as his offspring leave him and his family values behind for a more modern world. The daughter that is left behind...