Américas (Spanish Edition) back issues from September 2007:
From the editor.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Our hemisphere offers a bottomless store of surprises. Archaeologists always seem to be finding previously unknown civilizations, and scientists discover new species or come up with resourceful ways to protect those at risk. The region's natural beauty never ceases to amaze us, nor does ...
Words of praise.(Artículo breve)
Sep 01, 2007; ... As always, you have most interesting articles about various Pan-American countries. The June 2007 issue, in ...
Indian etymology.
Sep 01, 2007; ... The reader's complaint (Saul Salinas, May/June 2007) about the use of the word "Indian" is irrelevant. There are many words in every language that have no logical etymological link to how they are used. Americans, Native Americans, not to mention the two continents as well as this ...
Haida Centre open.(Artículo breve)
Sep 01, 2007; ... I enjoyed reading the article on Haida culture ("Kindred Watchmen of the Earth," August 2007) and hope it does not give the impression that people have to wait until next year to visit the Haida Heritage Centre. Although its official grand opening is scheduled for May 2008, the Heritage ...
Finding Vargas Llosa.
Sep 01, 2007; ... In the August 2007 issue of Américas, Mario Vargas Llosa's Historia de un deicidio was reviewed. It is my understanding that to read the latest version (published in 2006 in Barcelona by Galaxia-Gutemburg), one must buy Obras completas VI: Ensayos literarios I. My husband wants this set in ...
An indigenous first.(Artículo breve)
Sep 01, 2007; ... The first indigenous president of the American continent is not Evo Morales (August 2007). The first one was Benito Juarez, born in San Pablo ...
Ice roads on track.
Sep 01, 2007; ... IT'S NOT THE SMOOTHEST stretch of road--and for much of the year it's not a road at all. As in many other parts of northern Canada, this ice road is built every winter over rivers, lakes, and muskeg, once the weather is sufficiently cold. Winter roads provide a lifeline to ...
Thirteen towers of Peru.
Sep 01, 2007; ... IN A DESERT IN Peru, a mysterious series of thirteen stone towers lines a ridge like the spine of some giant dinosaur. The towers are part of an ancient ceremonial center named ChankiUo, in the CasmaSechin River Basin on the coast of Peru. Although researchers have been aware of ...
Puerto Rico's African roots.
Sep 01, 2007; ... THERE'S ANANA bochinche, and burundanga; funche, gandinga, and guarapo, malanga, mofongo, and nangotao--and these are only a few of the African words that spice up Puerto Rico's rapid-fire version of the Spanish language. Prominently inscribed on a first-floor wall of the Museum of Our ...
Back from the brink.
Sep 01, 2007; ... MIKE COFFEEN breathes a little easier these days. A US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who heads the agency's Sonoran pronghorn recovery program, Coffeen has seen wild pronghorn numbers in the United States triple in the last four years. The increase has been largely due to an ...
The frogs and the fungus: thanks to dedicated teams of international scientists, endangered amphibians in the central mountain region of Panama are getting help in their struggle against a deadly disease that threatens their survival.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Death lurks silently in the jungles of Panama. It can come in an instant, in a viper's strike or the jaguar's neck-breaking bite. But for other creatures, death may arrive slowly and mysteriously, brought on by undetectable assailants--plagues of microscopic organisms that threaten not ...
Suriname's new species.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Encouraging news from the amphibian world comes from Suriname, where biologists have discovered five new frog species in an area that shows no sign of the chytrid fungus. The frogs were found along with nineteen other species believed to be new to science, during a Rapid Assessment Program ...
Álvaro Uribe seeks justice and peace: in an interview with Americas, Colombian president Álvaro Uribe reveals his plans for eradicating guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug trafficking, while advancing free trade and democracy.(Biografía)
Sep 01, 2007; ... Américas magazine spoke with President Álvaro Uribe Velez at a time when two issues were dominating the news in Colombia: peace negotiations with illegal armed groups, and the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. As we were writing the introduction to this ...
Ancestry of the land before time: more than crude oil is being uncovered in northern Alberta's vast boreal forests, where people have lived for eleven millennia.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Locked up in the sands of northeastern Alberta lie some 175 billion barrels of crude oil--the world's second-largest reserves, after Saudi Arabia. Now producing over a million barrels a day, the area could triple its output in a little over a decade, given the CAN$80 billion of new ...
A history of hospitality: once the mainstay of a booming agrarian society, these restored estates are again contributing to economic growth in the Andean region known as the avenue of the Volcanoes.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Walking through the iron gates at Hacienda Cusín is like stepping into an impressionist painting. Bursts of sunlight alternate with fast-moving clouds to brighten gardens rampant with bougainvillea, fuchsia, jasmine, and orchids. Colonial antiques and handcrafted wooden furniture fill the ...
The artistry of amate.
Sep 01, 2007; ... April is the hottest time of year in the Río Balsas valley, midway between Mexico City and coastal Acapulco. A half-finished dirt highway coils up and down steep ochre hillsides, dotted with low trees and many-armed cactus. Between the hills, the river snakes along the baking bottomland, ...
Uncovering the bounty of Boyacá.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Terrential rains soak the Boyacá landscape, two hours north of Colombia's capital, Bogotá. Small brick and adobe houses with faded whitewash or chipped paint dot the roadside, looking cozy in the February downpour. Snug behind my windshield, glad to be returning to this region with my ...
Conference on the Caribbean.
Sep 01, 2007; ... IN THE FEW DECADES since most of them achieved independence, the nations of the Caribbean have made "impressive" strides, achieving high levels of economic, institutional, and social development. Nonetheless, as small states they remain inherently vulnerable, OAS Secretary General José ...
Helping Colombia investigate deaths.
Sep 01, 2007; ... RESPONDING TO A request by the government of Colombia, the OAS said it would establish an international forensic commission to help investigate the violent deaths of eleven Colombian lawmakers. The victims, representatives of the Departmental Assembly of Valle del Cauca, had been held as ...
African ties to the Americas.
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE TIES THAT BIND the nations of Africa and the Americas were once stained by the blood of slaves, participants in a conference at the OAS recalled; now these regions are joined by a commitment to democracy. "The historic bonds that unite Africa with the Americas, which include ...
Bird's-eye view.
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE GRANDEUR of Central and South America is seen from the air in a new book by photographer Robert Haas. Through the Eyes of the Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America (National Geographic Books, September 2007) captures images from fourteen countries--Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, ...
Viva Venezuela!
Sep 01, 2007; ... With all it has to offer, it's surprising that the rich tradition of music and dance of Venezuela hasn't made a bigger and more lasting impression on the world stage. True, discerning cognoscenti of many lands have long been aware of Venezuela's remarkable reservoir of worldclass music and ...
Buenos Aires bravado.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Sofia Laski arrived in Buenos Aires from Poland in the 1930s, and her earliest memory of life in Argentina is anchored in the theater--the Yiddish theater. "My father, Moisés Florman, laid down the law," she recalled. 'I was just six years old, but we went every weekend." For ...
Potrayals of female power.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Irony and passion are strong elements of four recent books with very different themes: the abuse of power in colonial Hispanic tradition, US-Mexican family history related through food, the pervasive influence of the Mafia in pre-Castro Cuba, and the silencing in "official" history of how ...
The potbellied virgin.(Reseña de libro)
Sep 01, 2007; ... Relieved of her old worries, rejuvenated, active, without circles under her eyes, one day very early she goes to inspect the Virgin and to confirm her suspicious as to whether the sacristan gives a good account of the candies, which seem to grow every day, instead of shrinking, so that she ...