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...goes to Barcelona, hoping to find Esteban's father, whom the boy never knew. There, by chance or fate, she meets her flock: Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz), a nun who deserves many fretful prayers, and her bitter mom (Rosa Maria Sarda); Huma Rojo (Paredes), an actress who is playing Blanche in the touring production of Streetcar that Manuela and her son had seen in Madrid; Huma's druggie lover Nina (Candela Pena); and Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a transsexual prostitute who has raised artifice to a philosophy. "You are more authentic," this dear creature says, "the more you resemble what...
Armando Valenzuela, who is studying jointly at the Kennedy School of Government and the Business School, was elected president of the Harvard University Mexican Association (HUMA...
Llaredo said that although HOLA and HUMA haveco-sponsored several events, including the visitof 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu,HOLA is designed for all who are interested inLatin American issues, while HUMA is specificallyfor Mexican students
...longer support two daily newspapers in Paris. Ce Soir once (1946) had more circulation (602,000) than any other French paper of the time, but of late it had sunk to a lowly 80,000. L'Humanité, the morning paper, was also sharply down, but "L'Huma" is the certified mouthpiece of Communism in France. Last week Ce Soir announced that it was going out of business. Its editor, Author & Poet Louis Aragon, had an explanation of sorts: "American pressure . . . and the boycott of firms working...
...that if only Maurice Thorez would come back from Russia, things would get better. Thorez, party boss in France, suffered a stroke in 1950, went to Russia for treatment, has not been seen in France since; many a non-Communist believes that he is dead. Last week L'Huma published a picture of a sickly Maurice Thorez with wife (see cut), claiming that it had been taken in Russia on Feb. 1 of this year. To skeptical Frenchmen, neither the photography nor the claim proved anything-except that Moscow wants the French faithful to believe that "Dear Maurice...