A Country Full Of Beans

The next issue of our Spanish audiomagazine has just been printed. Issue 14-05 of Puerta del Sol is now shipping to subscribers.

Puerta del Sol 14-05 Issue Contents
The latest issue of Puerta del Sol heads to high altitudes. In the cover feature, our Latin American correspondent Carlos Castro reports from Colombia on the vital importance of coffee to the economy and culture of the country. Our main interview in 14-05 is a bit of a scoop: María Fernanda Lencina talks at length with the former Mexican President, Vicente Fox. While our second interview in issue 14-05 takes us to Spain, where Puerta del Sol host, Toni Garrido talks to Alex de la Iglesia, director of El día de la Bestia and the recently released, The Oxford Murders. Other highlights of 14-05 include a profile by María Manjavacas on King Juan Carlos's 70th birthday and the monarch's position within the Spanish Constitution, and Toñi Fernández's feature on the divisions and rifts in Spanish family life caused by the use of the internet at home. Lastly, don't miss Fernando Avedoy's vivid portrait of the famous open air chili markets of México City.

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Stop Press--Previews of the next issues of our audio magazines

Champs-Elysées
In the next issue of Champs-Elysées, 24-09, Evelyne Pagès interviews Roselyne Bachelot, Ministre de la Santé and Gaëlle Alléhaux reports on the Moulin Rouge and the current state of the French Can-can.

Acquerello italiano
The next issue of Acquerello italiano, 14-02, will have a report on the Teatro Sperimentale di Spoleto--an opera school where foreign, especially Asian students, outnumber Italians. Another highlight is a visit to two ancient Roman domus found under Palazzo Valentini, the headquarters of the Rome provincial government.

Puerta del Sol
In the next issue of Puerta del Sol, 14-06, we have a report on the port of Algeciras, Spain's "Gateway to the South," and a portrait of the new president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Schau ins Land
In the next issue of Schau ins Land, 20-04, we interview well-known actor and producer, Michael "Bully" Herbig and we have an entertaining report from Bavaria on the history of the Lederhosen.

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Notable Notes

Throughout pre-Columbian America, a tianguis was pretty much what it is today--a street market and, by extension, a bustling focal point for a city. In "Life in the Provinces of the Aztec Empire," Michael Smith writes that "Aztec peasants were not simple farmers whose lives were dominated by the need to pay tribute to their elite overlords. Commoners living in both rural and urban areas of the provinces made heavy use of a thriving marketing system. They exchanged craft goods produced in their homes for a variety of foreign goods, and most of this economic activity was accomplished outside imperial control and ignored by early writers on the Aztecs." In his accessible introduction to the subject, Smith quotes Fray Durán’s The Aztecs: The History of the Indies of New Spain: "The markets were so inviting, pleasurable, appealing and gratifying to these people that great crowds attended, and still attend, them." Fray Toribio de Motolinía, the 16th-century Franciscan missionary who defended the rights of the indigenous population, wrote in his Historia de los indios de la Nueva España: "at these markets, called tianquiztli by the Indians, they sell whatever is found in this land, from gold and silver to reeds and firewood." These days, the products on sale at a tianguis are as likely to hail from China as from Mexico. Diego Rivera’s mural El Tianguis, located on a patio on Mexico’s Secretaría de Educación Pública, gives a sense of the bustling atmosphere of a tianguis. The mural can be seen at tinyurl.com/2rchmn.

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