Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roots, singing the Spanish-language songs her grandmother sang to her when she was a child. Her album Mi Tierra (1993) was entirely in Spanish and drew from the traditional music of Cuba; a follow-up, Abriendo Puertas (1995), also in Spanish, incorporated the music of Colombia and Venezuela. Estefan was a crossover star who was able to cross back. "A lot of people told me at the beginning, 'You're too Latin for the Americans, too American for the Latins,'" she says. "And I say, 'But that's who I am.' I'm Cuban American...
MOST CORRUPT 1. Nigeria 2. Pakistan 3. Kenya 4. Bangladesh 5. China 6. Cameroon 7. Venezuela 8. Russia 9. India 10. Indonesia...
...just happened to be walking by and I asked if they were going to sing," said Carlos Rengifo, a self- described frequent tourist from Caracas, Venezuela...
...examples are the various hunter-gatherer societies that anthropologists have studied this century, such as the Ainu of Japan, the !Kung San of southern Africa and the Ache of South America. Also valuable are societies with primitive agriculture in the few cases where--as with some Yanomamo villages in Venezuela--they lack the contaminating contact with moderners that reduces the anthropological value of some hunter-gatherer societies...
...Chile at 15, married an Anglo-Chilean engineer at 20 and worked as a journalist on women's and children's magazines. After her cousin's overthrow, she became caught up in the resistance to the dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American lawyer, William Gordon. It was to their house that she brought Paula, in the final months...