Issue 22 - 1992

Coe Review • Issue 22
A NOTE ON THE COVER
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Bob Campagna
FRONT COVER
Lorencita and Reycita are special friends of the Pueblo
people of Taos. When I return to their northern New Mexico home I
am often privileged to photograph them attired in their latest
ceremonial shawl. In the distance is Taos Mountain, Pueblo
centerpiece and protector of the sacred Blue Lake, source of the
Pueblo’s water. Blue Lake was returned to the Pueblo people by the
U.S. government in 1969, almost a century after it had been taken.
Lorencita and Reycita are good, gentle people with a ready smile for
me.
BACK COVER
My friend Angela guided me into the Velez Paiz hospital
maternity ward where she works in Managua. She and the other staff
are proud and spirit-filled.
They nurture the beautiful Nicaraguan children born into this
nation which for years was ravaged by a U.S.-backed Contra War,
and still feels the effects of the U.S.-orchestrated economic
embargo, a drought, runaway inflation, the 1988 hurricane which
left 300,000 homeless, the 1972 earthquake which killed 15,000,
and the late 1970s revolution which found the Sandinistas victorious
in 1979 (a victory affirmed in 1984’s free election and undone by the
U.S.financed UNO victory in the 1990 election).
I have twice visited Nicaragua to see the face of the enemy.
This baby, born in poverty’s throes, died the day I took this picture.
My friends, this nation on which we made war is a nation of
children. This warfare continues in various forms claiming innocent
lives: the children. This must stop.
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