Word: gonzã
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...meantime, the mine continues to be worked by thousands of illegal miners such as Henri Gonz??lez. Laboring under a sweltering sun, he blasts a water cannon against clay to loosen any tiny gold-bearing nuggets. He then extracts the gold with mercury, which sticks to gold like glue. "Sometimes I spend 15 days at a time in here without finding anything," he says. Like most of his fellow miners, Gonz??lez, 29, typically earns only enough to afford a shack made of zinc sheets and tree branches, set in a seedy mining camp where kids play in mercury-contaminated...
...what a mouth. On any given day, anyone within earshot is likely to get treated to an Ozzie-style peroration on such subjects as Hugo Chvez, the Pope, Elin Gonz??lez, why Ozzie shouldn't have to stand in line to get his U.S. citizenship papers, and how he would be just as content to be somewhere else, fishing. Ozzie told a local newspaper during a late-season slump, "We stink!" A few days later, he added, "Good thing my players don't listen to what I was saying to the media." But his players compete hard...
...past nine years, Tim Padgett has covered Latin America for us, first from Mexico City and now from his base in Miami. He has covered the sudden crises (Elin Gonz??lez comes to mind), the outsize personalities (Hugo Chvez of Venezuela is but the most recent example) and the long-running tragedy that is Haiti. He has chronicled the rise of the NAFTA generation in Mexico, the cocaine guerrillas in Colombia and the crusade of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya as he struggled for a national referendum on Castro's rule. We're delighted that for this work...
...tears through familiar singer-songwriter territory with unfamiliar vigor, guiding us around his spartan sonic landscape. Gonz??lez pays homage at the scattered graves of the many troubled troubadours who fell in wars with themselves (Drake, Elliott Smith, countless others) and respond to the gaudy monuments erected by those who made their mark...
...sets, “Taps” is played, and the collaged inhabitants of José Gonz??lez’s sonic dreamworld, halfway between the frozen North and the turbid South, wave him on his way, out into a promising artistic life of his own fashioning...