Write the word "Galápagos" in any search engine and up will come thousands of links to Darwin, evolution, pristine islands, unique species, tortoises, iguanas, sea lions, blue-footed boobies, premier place to visit before kicking the bucket, etc. Seldom does one see a mention of the people who live on the...

Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue is an exciting adventure that will bring scientists and celebrities on a Galápagos expedition to study ways of protecting the oceans. It is my hope that the expedition will generate action and bring in the funds to help preserve Galápagos because, as a native...

Sixty years ago on the night of February 12, 1949, the Martians landed in my hometown of Quito, the capital of Ecuador. And here I am as a visitor to this now big city reminiscing.

In that distant year, Quito was a small city of 250,000. Set high in the...

I will never forget the last time I talked to Fidel Castro. It was at the Jose Marti airport in Havana in 1988 and the Comandante en Jefe, wearing olive green, looking like a military version of an Old Testament prophet with his scraggly beard and blazing eyes, was saying...