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summer/fall 1999

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COVER STORIES:
An ardent affair:
García Márquez and film
by Hugo Lara

Arturo Ripstein’s Coronel
by Javier González Rubio

 

contents

SPECIAL REPORT
death of a journalist
by J.Jesús Blancornelas

the nafta gang
Mexico’s legendary Hank family

by Julia Reynolds
photos by Janjaap Dekker

The Revenge of Los Nerds

by Brendan M. Case

Words from a Young Writer
by Francisca Valenzuela

Texas is really Argentina
by Tomás Eloy Martínez

Guadalupe, the sex goddess
by Sandra Cisneros

Lowrider language
by Carmella Padilla

Ode to the Mecánico
by Juan Estevan Arellano

Rigoberta Menchú’s truth
by Mary Jo McConahay




fotografía

Oaxaca, oaxaca
photos by Miguel Zafra

Tres generaciones
by Eugenio Castro

Guadalupe, the sex goddess
photograph by Janjaap Dekker


essays on loss

Un hombre hasta el fin
by Carlos Fuentes

Skeleton keys
by Carol Zapata-Whelan

When dolls talk
by David Pérez

A secret society
by Alicia Carrillo

l.a. stories

Sin caballero, no hay dama
by Claudia S. Meléndez
photos by Paul Myers


Street corner workers join immigrant labor movement
by David Bacon

Coming of age in the projects
by Adriana Martínez

ficciones

La historia de colores
by Subcomandante Marcos
illustrated by Domitila Domínguez

memoria

The effects of Knut Hamsum on a Fresno boy
by Gary Soto