Month: June 2010

The Music Man of Grozny

BY MATT LUCAS Somewhere in the lost alleyways of Grozny, if you know the right place to go, you can hear Ruslan play his old records from before the wars.  Zeppelin, Hendrix, Marley, the great jazzmen, the blues.  According to…

Silencing the Sindicalistas

BY WHITNEY EULICH On an April night ten years ago, Luz Ortiz took the bus home from the local university after wrapping up a union meeting.  It was 10:30 p.m., and the streets of Cali, Colombia were quiet, dark.  When…