News Source: The Economist
| about 1 month ago
Latin Americans in the later stages of middle age, to hear the voice of Mercedes Sosa, who died on October 4th at the age of 74, is to be instantly transported back to the turbulent times when left-wing radicals seeking justice and revolution battled...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Sosa, the Argentine folk singer whose politically charged repertory, sung in a powerful, earthy and impassioned alto voice, led her to be known throughout Latin America as ''the voice of the voiceless'', has died of kidney, liver and lung problems in...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
Police in New Haven, Conn., arrested a man whose car they allege was full of guns and explosives, ranging from pipe bombs to propane tanks. TV in New Haven reported Wednesday police found the explosives inside the unidentified suspect's car Tuesday...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
Mercedes Sosa, 1935-2009. Mercedes Sosa was the most lauded Latin- American singer of her generation, known as ''La Negra'' for her long, jet-black hair and ''the voice of the voiceless ones'' for her performances of songs that championed the rights...