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...effect colonialism is still having on native populations in Latin America: "The massacres of Indians that began with Columbus never stopped ... The Yaqui Indians of the Mexican state of Sonora were drowned in blood so that their lands, fertile and rich in minerals, could be sold without an unpleasantness to various U.S. capitalists ... On the Andean slopes near Bogota, the Indian peon must still give a day's work without pay to get the hacendado's permission to farm his own plot on moonlit nights...
DEATH REVEALED. CARLOS CASTANEDA, believed to be 72, enigmatic personality who was either an unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment...
...Cardenas campaign was an eight-month odyssey in search of people he calls the "forgotten ones." He stayed in hotels so unpleasant that journalists covering his campaign refused to enter them. Says Campaign Aide Carlos Torres: "We talked to the Yaqui Indians in Sonora, the Triques in Oaxaca, the Mazahuas in Mexico State. We went to see them. We didn't have them brought...
...power, possibly by means of a military coup. His last major act as President was a political shocker. Charging that wealthy landlords had violated Mexican law by masking their holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria two weeks ago ordered that 243,000 acres in Sonora's lush, irrigated Yaqui valley, worth about $80 million, be handed over to landless peasantry. The subsequent "invasion" of 8,000 farm families was smoothly run overnight by government-sponsored unions. By dawn, happy, flag-waving campesinos were haggling over boundaries...
...around"), Jackson finances a home for delinquent boys in Tempe, Ariz., where he lives in the offseason. He plans to open a ranch for the same purpose near Tucson. Last year he gave the car he won as best player in the World Series to a Chicano and Yaqui Indian community organization in Tempe. Jackson's generosity is an extension of his religious beliefs. He is a Methodist who rarely attends church at home, but he organizes an informal Sunday chapel while on the road. "Religion to me," he says, "is doing things for my friends and neighbors...