Until mid-June of 1961 when Life magazine’s millions of readers saw Gordon Parks’s photographic essay on poverty in Rio’s hillside slums (favelas), the American image of the life of Rio’s poor was based largely on Marcel Camus’ moving film fantasy, …
Most rural Latin Americans have a standard of living no better than that of the Indians who were found on the land by the European colonizers or of the slaves that subsequently were imported into parts of the continent. In …
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