Editor’s Letter: U.S. Foreign Policy
This was supposed to have been the anniversary issue. The only problem was that with the temporary cutback in ReVista’sschedule from three to two times a year, it is no longer the…
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Author: June Carolyn Erlick
Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames
Harvard’s Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames (AMES) contains about 131,000 specimens, in addition to a library of about 5,000 books, reprints, and journals. The herbarium also houses a…
Read MoreEditor’s Letter: Cityscapes
I have to confess. I fell passionately, madly, in love at first sight. I was standing on the edge of Bogotá’s National Park, breathing in the rain-washed air laden with the heavy fragrance of eucalyptus trees. …
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Colonial Cities
“Potosí!” exclaims Tom Cummins, his lively eyes twinkling, his neat graying ponytail just grazing his collar line. “You can’t have an issue on cities without Potosí. Some people think cities in Latin America …
Read MoreEditor’s Letter: Beyond Armed Actors, A Look at Civil Society
When I first started working on this ReVista issue on Colombia, I thought of dedicating it to the memory of someone who had died. Murdered newspaper editor Guillermo Cano had been my entrée into Colombia when I won an Inter American Press Association fellowship in 1977. Others—journalist Penny Lernoux and photographer Richard Cross—had also committed much of their lives to Colombia, although their untimely deaths were …
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