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Calling all Travel Writers and Travel Book Authors
 Bay Area Travel Writers
All travel writers are encouraged to submit travel articles, essays and books to the San Francisco Bay Area Travel Writers Planet Earth Awards. Prominent editors, journalists and experts will judge; and, awards results will be publicized nationally and internationally.
Book Suggests Best Places for Girls to Have Fun
 Canada.com
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson has been to a lot of places. According to her introduction in this female-friendly guidebook, she chose these 50 places based on numerous factors, including safety, good public transportation, the variety of things to do and see, friendliness and cost.
Mexico Exorcist Slams Harry Potter
 Paul Kiernan
The leading exorcist of Mexico's main archdiocese said the popular Harry Potter book and film series could allow the devil to enter children's minds, and does "a lot of damage."
Yelapa Author Robert Hardin Releases New Novel
 PVNN
Yelapa author, Robert Hardin, recently released "Paradise Marred," a fast-paced thriller inspired by today's headlines. When asked why he chose to include current politics in his latest plot he replied, "I don't think I could've avoided the issue."
Author Describes Discovery of Her Ancestors' Stories
 Rigoberto González
Author of the widely known story collection "Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist," plus a trilogy of novels that take place in late 19th-century Mexico, Kathleen Alcalá now has gathered essays, process notes, speeches and journal entries in "The Desert Remembers My Name."
Obrador: The Mafia Stole the Presidency from Us
 Agencia Reforma
Ex-presidential candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador announced this week that he will present a book where he narrates "in detail" everything that happened during the polemic 2006 election.
Mexico's Poniatowska Wins Lit Prize
 Associated Press
Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska received the prestigious Romulo Gallegos literature prize Tuesday for her novel "El Tren Pasa Primero." The book tells the story of a railroad worker who becomes immersed in the struggle for labor rights in Mexico.
The Mexican Will See You Now
 Mireya Navarro
The Q. and A. column, “¡Ask a Mexican!” made its debut in November 2004 and unleashed a torrent of criticism and attention, not to mention questions. Among them: What’s with the Mexican need to display the Virgin of Guadalupe everywhere?
Univision Journalist Puzzles Over Deaths of 400 Mexican Women
 Ana Veciana-Suarez
For almost a decade, the faces and families of the murdered women have haunted Teresa Rodriguez. The Emmy-winning Univision journalist went on to cover hundreds of other stories after her first trip to Juarez, scene of heinous crimes, but her thoughts always returned to those hundreds who were abandoned in the desert.
The World's First Network of Book On Demand Libraries
 PRWEB
Through the purchase of the InstaBook systems for their public libraries, Mexico is becoming a world leader in the application of this new technology by offering services that no other country is offering to their readers.
Harvard or Mexico? Teen Chooses Past Over Present
 Reviewed by Lisa Teasley
In present-tense, staccato voice and blunt, rhythmic prose, Eric B. Martin, in his third novel, "The Virgin's Guide to Mexico," follows Alma Price, a 16-year-old rich, suburban Texan, on her journey to her maternal roots in Mexico.
Plame Sues CIA for Blocking Her Memoir
 Adam Liptak
Valerie Wilson, the former intelligence operative at the heart of an investigation that reached into the White House, sued the Central Intelligence Agency in federal court in New York yesterday over its refusal to allow her to publish a memoir that would discuss how long she had worked for the agency.
Praise for Cuesta’s Book Exposing Hispanic Autonomy Arising From Immigration
 PRLeap.com
As the rising tide of “illegal immigrants” in the United States demands amnesty, Cuesta’s book relates the self-autonomy movement in the Mexican state of Chiapas, to a similar movement occurring in the American Southwest.
Bodies Pile Up in Mexico
 Ceci Connolly
Two Hollywood movies have fictionalized the story, and now, finally, the scandal is getting the serious treatment it deserves in what is being touted as the first nonfiction account in English of the unsolved murders in "The Daughters of Juarez."
Love that Mexican style? Adapt it for Your Home
 Claire Whitcomb
The hothouse colors, the hand-painted tiles, the lazy drift of hammocks and mosquito netting: If you visit Mexico, it's hard not to fall in love with the look and the lifestyle But unlike a craft or a curio that you can pack in your suitcase, Mexican style isn't always easy to bring back home.
Provocative Solution for Mexico/US Immigration Issue
 RP News Wires
In his new book, “Opening the Borders: Solving the Mexico/U.S. Immigration Problem for Our Sake and Mexico’s”, Blasko outlines the early, rocky relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. He quickly brings readers up to speed and then hones in on the immigration issue as it stands today. With a dash of humor and a conversational tone, Blasko reminds us that America is a nation founded by immigrants.
Business Visionary Predicted North American Union in '93
 WorldNetDaily.com
While even in 2007 many express skepticism about a plot to integrate North America along the lines of the European Union, 14 years ago, one of world's most celebrated economists and management experts said it was already on the fast track – and nothing could stop it.
Unpublished Texts by Marti Printed
 Prensa Latina
Researchers from the CEM (Center on Marti Studies) presented a notebook containing notes by Cuban National Hero Jose Marti (1853-1895) and two new American scenes that had never been published.
Who Killed Kennedy? One Man’s Answer
 Edward Wyatt
The prosecutor who put Charles Manson behind bars now wants to solve another crime — a really simple one, he insists. So simple that it takes only 1,612 pages to prove his case.
Man in the Mask Returns to Change the World
 Mail & Guardian Online
A bead of sweat is visible through the eyehole of his famous black balaclava. Latin America's most celebrated living rebel must be feeling the heat, but a glass of water would mean taking off the mask and that is out of the question. He makes do with a puff on his pipe, and a subject that is close to his heart.
Book Review: Nothing, Nobody - The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake
 Gina Ruiz
To me there is no greater woman journalist than Mexico’s beloved Elena Poniatowska. Every book I read of hers touches me in so many ways. Nothing, Nobody -- the chronicle of the earthquake in September of 1985 that devastated Mexico City — in particular haunts my days and nights.
Book Smoothes Way to Living Abroad with Family
 Associated Press
Ever dream of chucking the daily routine and moving with your family to a foreign country? Elisa Bernick and her husband did just that, with their two children, moving from St. Paul, Minn., to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for 18 months.
Stalin’s Assassination of Leon Trotsky
 sf-frontlines.com
The writings of Leon Trotsky were first introduced to a British audience in booklets published by the British Socialist Party. Trotsky advocated the pursuit of socialism via revolutionary methods and refuted the notion of reformist parliamentary socialism.
Mexican Tells All!
 Gustavo Arellano
The Reconquista has arrived! On May 1, Ask a Mexican came out in book form, gracias to the literary madmen at Scribner. It has all the same stuff you read here, but más — more essays, more illustrations from Mark Dancey and more questions.
Plot Thickens in New Book about JFK
 George Rush & Joanna Rush Molloy
President John F. Kennedy was almost certainly the victim of a CIA-Mafia plot, according to a new book that reveals Robert Kennedy's secret efforts to expose such a scheme.
Tenet Memoir Draws Heat From Key Players
 Katherine Shrader
The backlash has built up even before the official release of former CIA Director George Tenet's memoir, with criticism about his version of the run-up to the Iraq war, interrogation techniques and other events.
Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq
 Scott Shane & Mark Mazzetti
George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.
Conspiring with Margo Tamez
 Lisa Alvarado
I chose this title, thinking of the Latin root of the word “conspire,” meaning to breathe together, to come together, to be close enough to share the necessary, the intimate. This week's column is an interview with Margo Tamez, writer of two books, Naked Wanting and the just-released, Raven Eye.
'Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream'
 Dagoberto Gilb
I am obsessed with the Conquest. I think of it as one of the thousand-year flood events that has shaped the Western world, the one right after the Christians moved out of Jerusalem and ascended to power throughout Europe. I say this certainly aware of many other huge moments in Western history.
'Partners in Power' Explores Nixon, Kissinger Dynamics
 Tim Rutten
Robert Dallek already has established himself as one of our most formidable chroniclers of the modern presidency, but his new book, "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power," sets a new benchmark for the field and surely will come to be regarded as a classic work of contemporary American history.
2007 Travel Writers Conference in Scottsdale, AZ
 PVNN
Open to professional travel writers who have published a minimum of two major magazine articles within the last 18 months, the Travel Classics West 2007 Writers Conference is scheduled to take place from November 1-4, 2007 in Scottsdale, AZ.
Boy's Journey Put in Words
 Tom Hennessy
Only in the second grade, he already was falling behind. His teacher, a Catholic nun, summoned his parents and gave them an ultimatum: "You either teach this boy English or go back to Mexico." It worked, says Ernesto Caravantes.
Excerpt from Lee Iacocca's New Book "Where Are All the Leaders"
 PVNN
Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? Iacocca, the bestselling author and former president of Ford and Chrysler, is back to sound a howl of anger against the sad state of leadership in the U.S. today.
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