Americas back issues from September 2000:
From the editor
Sep 01, 2000; ... The preservation and conservation of cultural heritage has long been a principal concern of the OAS, as it has been of UNESCO and more recently of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. With this particular focus, these organizations have been better able to approach problems of ...
Upfront
Sep 01, 2000; ... Satisfied Subscriber My first issue of Americas Magazine has been received, and I am very pleased with the presentation and the variety of subjects in the many articles. So many states are involved, and I will be learning such new data about them. Being ninety years old, ...
Growing Dutch in Sao Paulo
Sep 01, 2000; ... ONE OF THE MOST colorful harbingers of spring in the Southern Hemisphere is Expoflora 2000, the largest exhibition of flowers and plants in South America. This year a quarter of a million visitors are expected to flock to Holambra, the small municipality in the interior of the state of Sao ...
Info links to Belizean species
Sep 01, 2000; ... INFORMATION CAN be a powerful conservation tool, and with today's computer technology, information can be stored, accessed, and compiled more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Wildlife Conservation Society biologists Bruce and Carolyn Miller have taken full advantage of current ...
Brazil's brightest jewels
Sep 01, 2000; ... IN 1939, ON THE EVE of World War II, a penniless German Jew named Hans Stern arrived in Brazil with his parents, and with no clue as to how he'd make a living. Six years later, as the war was winding down, the enterprising refugee inaugurated a jewelry business with $200 in savings ....
Resorts of other sorts
Sep 01, 2000; ... The Canopy Tower is not the only former U.S. government installation that has undergone a metamorphosis since the U.S. turned over the 647-square-mile Canal Zone to Panama. Just down the road is the Gamboa Rainforest Resort, a luxury hotel that opened in June on grounds that used to ...
Recovering the regal splendor of Lima
Sep 01, 2000; ... An aggressive municipal initiative is revitalizing the center of this historic capital, preserving cultural sites and modeling future public spaces about five years ago, the historic center of Lima was not a place anyone who valued the contents of his pockets wanted to ...
Minstrel of magical strings
Sep 01, 2000; ... WITH MASTERFUL COMPOSITIONS AND AN ENIGMATIC PERSONALITY, GUITARIST AGUSTIN BARRIOS LEFT A LEGACY THAT RESOUNDS FAR BEYOND HIS NATIVE PARAGUAY Agustin Barrios was one of the great guitar virtuosi of this century. Yet driven by self-doubts, he lacked the confidence early his career to ...
Rafting fever
Sep 01, 2000; ... The audacity of Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 balsa-log voyage from South America to Polynesia inspired followers to seek similar fame and fortune. This author knew some of them Kon-Tiki "We were proto-hippies. To escape civilization, Liv and I had marooned ourselves in 1937 on Fatu ...
Continuing a mission in Peru
Sep 01, 2000; ... A SPECIAL OAS mission to Peru will promote dialogue among different sectors of society and monitor progress in strengthening democracy and implementing reforms. Former foreign minister Eduardo Latorre of the Dominican Republic is heading this effort. The special mission will continue a ...
The electoral beat goes on
Sep 01, 2000; ... THE OAS CONTINUED this year's busy schedule of electoral observations, sending missions to Venezuela's July 30 general elections and to the August 13 vice presidential elections in Paraguay. In Haiti, the OAS electoral observation mission suspended its activities two days before the ...
Farewell to Ambassador Thomas
Sep 01, 2000; ... OAS AMBASSADORS paid tribute to outgoing Assistant Secretary General Christopher R. Thomas at a Permanent Council session in July. Ambassador Thomas, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, had served in the second-highest OAS post for two terms. "Over the years, we worked as a team with ...
The hard drive of Democracy
Sep 01, 2000; ... The 1990s stand out as the decade in which the OAS member countries made strengthening democracy one of their highest priorities. When the OAS General Assembly convened in 1990 in Asuncion, it established the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD); its unanimous approval of Resolution 1080 ...
Legacies in rhythm
Sep 01, 2000; ... Two figures who all but defined their respective music traditions and became virtual cultural icons in their homelands have passed away, leaving a void that will not easily be filled. In Brazil, the regal woman known as the First Lady of Samba, Neuma Goncalves da Silva, died on July 17 ...
Journeys of mystics and colonial nuns
Sep 01, 2000; ... Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, by Cathleen Medwick. New York: Knopf, 1999. The sixteenth-century Spanish nun Teresa of Avila had an immense impact in the New World. In 1622, the year she was canonized, Archbishop Perez de la Serna named her patron saint of Mexico City, and in ...
A Voice of Homelands and Diasporas
Sep 01, 2000; ... Pedro Mir, the poet laureate of the Dominican Republic, died in Santo Domingo on July 11, 2000-a loss to the Western Hemisphere of a towering literary figure as well as a venerable person. Born in 1913 in San Pedro de Macoris, Mir-Don Pedro to most compatriots-began publishing his verse in 1937 ...