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...wanted to have a type of tourism that really raised people's understanding," says founder Alfonso Martinez, who dresses in a ski mask and goes by the name Poncho. "So we decided to turn the painful experience all of us here have gone through into a kind of game that teaches something to our fellow Mexicans." Poncho and other ski-masked comrades play polleros, or chicken herders - the human smugglers who guide wannabe migrants over the deserts and rivers into the U.S. Having made the real journey dozens of times to work as a gardener in Nevada, Poncho is well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mexico, a Theme Park for Border Crossers | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...item they didn't necessarily need, given the recent fluctuations in weather. Still, designers did their best to give coats a grand, new twist, whether they were supersized shearlings like the one that opened Dolce & Gabbana's rock 'n' roll-inspired show or the exotic, Tibetan-inspired poncho shearling and paisley embroidered coats at Alexander McQueen's Mongolian-meets-Mayan show. Meanwhile, Frida Gianinni took the Gucci man on an exotic trip to post-revolutionary Russia, returning with some pretty extravagant greatcoats festooned with Cossack-inspired embroideries and fur-and-velvet trim. Even the traditional pea coat and overcoat were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Milan, the Coat Goes Haute | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...Early one December morning, hours after polls closed in the 2006 UC presidential elections, the newly-anointed head of Harvard’s student government threw a celebratory arm around the shoulder of his poncho-clad running mate, Matthew L. Sundquist...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Shrewd Brinksman | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...worry. The Livingstone occupies a prime position just five minutes' stroll from the eastern cataract - and if you can't even face that, there are golf carts to transport you to the water's edge. Rent a rain poncho for $2 from the guys at the top of the path - at this proximity, you don't so much see the Falls as pass through a series of Zambezi car washes - and pay your tourist dues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Respite | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...things that have to do directly with her ethnicity. She grosses out her skinny, preening, (mostly) Anglo co-workers by bringing empanadas for lunch. Her features are broad and unmistakably Mesoamerican. (Ferrera is strikingly pretty in real life.) On her first day at work, she wears a hideous poncho with GUADALAJARA emblazoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ugly, the American | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

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