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...dozens are flown every year--includes more than $100 million of American gear orbiting over hell and trying to make a difference. So far, the missions have had little impact on overall production. "People want it to be Desert Storm," says Bernard Aronson, the senior State Department official for Latin America during the first Bush Administration. "It's not. It is a long war of attrition. There is progress over time. We just need the political will to sustain the fight." And to swallow the hard realities of a slow war: a recent State Department report notes that total overseas...
...which has its roots as a dance music and involves a long history of Dizzy Gillespie's blazing, sweat-soaked solos or Mongo Santamaria's pulsing congas. Just as jazz only truly manifests itself in front of an audience, its "cousin" (as Paquito d'Rivera dubs it), Latin music needs interplay with spectators. Especially when contrasted with the grainy, blurred handheld video footage that trails the musicians' everyday lives, crisp steadicam film underscores the fact that even though the musicians do deliver stellar performances, they appear slightly detached and removed from their collective element...
...scene is absolutely overwhelming in its contrasts, but at the same time, the spectacles presented are also slightly unnerving. Scenes of these now somewhat naturalized Latin expatriates bundled in bulky coats on a Manhattan midwinter day, are troubling because, just as the performers seem out of place without an audience, these people seem out of place away from their native homes. Once revered in their homelands, these musicians are relegated to the periphery of the cultural conscious in North America...
...margins, when father and son Bebo and Chucho Valdes play a piano duet or when Chico O'Farril wanders aimlessly in the New York City night, the film becomes intensely real and touchingly personal. Calle 54 may indeed be Trueba's "way of repaying a debt of gratitude to Latin jazz," but for novices and the well-versed alike, it also serves to educate and foster a love of the music. Trueba has succeeded, for all the spectacle, and the cracks in between...
...last several months, a group of students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) has been lobbying to lower the voting age in Cambridge School Committee and City Council elections to age 16 in hopes of encouraging young people to become more involved in the political process...