New Orleans The President was in town. There is a picture in the morning paper of him rubbing Mayor Nagin’s head and another one of him with Leah Chase since he and his buddies all broke bread at the Dookey Chase place. There was a story in the paper over the last couple …
Month: August 2007
Gonzalez Down
Quito At breakfast the last several mornings I have read the Miami Herald Latin American edition with some interest. Today there was an interesting story about Cuban immigration through Mexican ports along the Yucatan and the increased traffic there. Closer reading turned out that the difference between last year and this year was less …
Peripheral
Quito Somehow with 2 million people spread across this particular landscape, the poor are less visible than in many other Latin American cities. Quito is spread out along the narrow valley between impressive mountains soaring somehow more than 9000 feet above seat level. Despite the fact that we are on the equator and the quick …