Articles

False suicide reports shine light on Tarahumara plight

By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
January 18, 2012

North Mexico wilts under worst drought on record

Dec. 2, 2011, 1:29 p.m. PST
AP

DURANGO, Mexico (AP) — The sun-baked northern states of Mexico are suffering under the worst drought since the government began recording rainfall 70 years ago.

Tarahumara: Pillars of the world

The documentary was produced in 1998 at WILL-TV, the PBS station in Champaign-Urbana, IL. To obtain a copy, contact WILL at 217-333-7300. The program is still listed on their website but the program companion site is no longer active.

PARTING COMPANY

He was a Mexican Jesuit. His first name was Luis, but his last name. Verplancken. made you scratch your head until you learned that his mother was from Mexico, his father from Belgium.

Clinica Santa Teresita: a volunteer's experience by Cathy Scarbrough, RN, MSN Nothing in my 20 years of nursing could have prepared me for how sick and malnourished the Tarahumara children were that I cared for this past September when I volunteered for 2 weeks at Clinica Santa Teresita in Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Dear Friends
For those of you who haven't seen it, I thought you all might be interested in a magazine article published in Company, the magazine of the Jesuits in the US.
For those of you who have a hardcopy, or are mailing copies around, I wanted you to know it is now on line at CompanyMagazine.org