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...cover story, Willwerth ranged from Tijuana and Monterrey to a hillside in the elegant Bosques district of Mexico City, which affords a view of outgoing President José López Portillo's unfinished family estate. Reporter Laura López headed south to Chiapas and Taxco. She also visited some of Mexico's most remote areas during the presidential campaign of Miguel de la Madrid and watched his helicopter fleet land, "no different in the eyes of the isolated villagers from seeing an Aztec god descend from the heavens." After a one-hour interview with...
...squeeze is equally apparent in other countries. Shop after shop in Taxco, Mexico, the silversmithing capital of the world, has closed. Artisans and craftsmen have been idled by the exploding cost of silver and the reluctance of tourists to pay the exorbitant prices. In Paris jewelry retailer Robert Edery confesses: "People just aren't buying. We have not done any real business in months...
There's a lot more to Mexico man Acapulco and the silver mines of Taxco," says Staff Writer Jack White. "More than Tijuana, tequila, tortillas and tacos," adds Bernard Diederich, who has been chief of TIME's bureau in Mexico City for more than a decade. Yet cornmeal cliches have often flavored American thinking about the neighbor across the Rio Grande. This week's cover story, written by White and reported by Diederich, assesses the social, political and historical landscape of a country described by Diederich as "big, beautiful and as complicated as any on earth...
Died. William Philip Spratling, 66, reviver of Mexico's Taxco silver crafts, a New York-born architect-artist who came across the impoverished, pre-Columbian silver-mining town 70 miles southwest of Mexico City in 1933, stayed on to learn the metalcraft from the few Indian artisans remaining, soon opened his own shop, and spent the rest of his life building the village into a major tourist attraction and its silver-smithies into a business employing 2,950 people; of injuries when his car crashed into an embankment; near Taxco...
This summer, in such diverse settings as a Universalist church on Cape Cod, a 16th century hacienda near Taxco, Mexico, and a leafy glade on the shores of California's Lake Arrowhead, hundreds of amateur U.S. musicians are taking part in a series of workshops. Their subject: advanced noodling. Their instrument: the recorder, a kind of glorified penny whistle with a pedigree...