Word: pueblos
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...latest book, Crossing Over, ends by finally stating what Martínez has been alluding to all along: “There is no border; the line is an idea.” Crossing Over chronicles the vitality, resilience and internal conflict of Cherán, a small Mexican pueblo, after the death of three of its community members. While attempting to cross the border in order to earn money to support their family, three Chávez brothers died in an automobile accident. Martínez’s non-fictional account traces the anguish of a family...
...used atom bombs on two Japanese cities at the end of World War II. In the midst of our grief and outrage, Americans need to examine our conscience and perhaps thereby temper the magnitude of the U.S. response with the humane values of justice, proportion and compassion. BILL EVANS Pueblo, Colo...
Favorite Song: “Pueblo Nuevo” by Buena Vista Social Club
...past is present everywhere at Lake Powell. The topography has been shaped by 2 billion years of geologic activity. Dinosaurs that walked the earth 150 million years ago have left tracks in Glen Canyon. Scattered along the lake's canyon walls are ancient petraglyphs chiseled by the Anasazi pueblo dwellers some 700 years ago. The lake is named after Major John Wesley Powell, a Civil War veteran who led the first scientific expedition into this region in 1869. Some of the rocks here still bear his initials. At night, I showed our girls the fluffy film of the Milky...
...throes of the Elian Gonzalez crisis is a source of snide humor for most Americans. But many younger Cuban Americans in Miami are getting tired of the hard-line anti-Castro operatives who have helped manufacture that stereotype--especially the privileged, imperious elite who set themselves up as a pueblo sufrido, a suffering people, as martyred as black slaves and Holocaust Jews, but ever ready to jump on expensive speedboats to reclaim huge family estates the moment the old communist dictator stops breathing...