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Fifteen hundred miles south, in the Sierra Negra, lies a poorer and more conservative Mexico. Here along the dry river beds suspicion of Uncle Sam remains pronounced. ``How did Mexico fall so quickly?'' asks Serafin Perez Nava, mayor of San JoseTetla (pop. 800). ``Under Salinas we thought we had prestige, but it washed away like a sand castle. Now they are mortgaging our country. What happens later if we can't pay our debts? Will the U.S. then ask for part of our territory?'' Carlos Garcia Moreno teaches 17 children in a one-room schoolhouse. His $70-a-week salary...
...celebrate diversity and search for common ground. Inglewood High School, 90% white 20 years ago and 90% black 10 years ago, is 48% Latino today. "We have the same challenges, and I've learned to see that if everybody united, we could be a big force," says Efrain Nava, a 16-year-old Mexican American. "We are all minorities, but together we are a majority...
...sits in her humble Guatemalan home and spins tales of a promised land she has seen only in the pages of Good Housekeeping. In America, she tells her daughter Rosa, you will find money, cars, TV, even indoor plumbing. "You flush it, and everything vanishes!" And so in Gregory Nava's 1983 film El Norte, Rosa and her brother Enrique embark on a perilous pilgrimage toward the golden north. When they eventually reach California, they do find honest work and small incomes -- the money dreams can buy. But it is a rasping irony to possess so little when surrounded...
Writer-Producer Anna Thomas and Writer-Director Gregory Nava have swathed their story in the amber sunsets of nostalgia. But this patina has the same effect on the winceable dialogue and agitated performances as lacquer on attic furniture. The farce of Destiny proves, yet again, that the road to dull is paved with bad pretensions...
...established enough," says Pamela L. Nava, a student in the Graduate School of Education...