magazine

November/December

Features

6 French Connection in the Southern Cone Text and photographs by Caleb Bach and Giancarlo Puppo
This European nation left a decorative legacy in the blue and white tiles adorning numerous churches and homes in Uruguay and Argentina

14 Journey to the Roots of a Shore Text and photographs by Victor Englebert
Aboard a small logging boat, this author enters the forbidding magic of Colombia's southern Pacific coast

22 Freedom Train to Mexico by Roger Di Silvestro and Shirley Boteler Mock
Another version of the Underground Railroad took a number of nineteenth-century US slaves to liberty south of the Rio Grande

32 Rescuing the Orinoco's Colonial Grace Text and photographs by Bjørn Sletto
In Ciudad Bolívar, once the Liberator's headquarters and Venezuela's first capital, bold renovators are preserving a unique architectural heritage

42 Artful Witness of Injustice by Mike Ceaser
In poignant canvases and murals, Bolivian painter Walter Solón captured the hopes and struggles of the oppressed