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Although the overall results of the contra campaign are difficult to determine, it is having a dire effect in some areas. Rancho Grande, a hamlet of wooden and tin-roofed dwellings in the coffee-growing region of Matagalpa, 35 miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last...
The border between Mexico and the U.S. is political and historical, not geographical. There are no natural barriers between the two nations. The Rio Grande does not separate, it unites. But the sameness of the landscape only accentuates the social and historical differences. They are most visible ethnically and, above...
For Figueiredo's military backers, an even more alarming outcome loomed in the major southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro. There, a front runner in the gubernatorial race was Leonel Brizola, 62, a charismatic populist and onetime left-wing orator who was governor of Brazil's southern state...
Fitzcarraldo is unusual for a Herzog film in providing a gallery of delightful supporting performances. Claudia Cardinale, as Fitz's mistress Molly, radiates sensuality like a healthy year-round suntan. Jose Lewgoy, who plays an unscrupulous rubber baron, takes immense and innocent pleasure in his character's venality...
Droughts at this time of year have dried the Rio Grande to a trickle at many points and turned the riverbed into a soggy avenue of escape. Illegal aliens, who are disparagingly called wetbacks because they have to swim across the river, can now cross at El Paso by wading...