
¨Mangle verde,
fuente de vida,
filtro de aguas...
¡aves que anidan!!¨
Francisco J. Vélez, Circa 1999
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After three rainless weeks a welcome tropical shower blew into San Juan, Puerto Rico, one afternoon last May, awakening Casa Delpin with the sound of trickling water. It splattered down in sweet rivulets, dripping from diagonal slats in the concrete ceiling and dancing on the surface of a lap pool that stretches across the open living area. Eleven prefabricated ceiling panels had been perforated for just this effect. As the storm passed, sunlight filtered through the slats to reflect off the pool and onto an expanse of white wall. “It’s like living with a light show,” says Carlos Delpin, who rebuilt the house last year with his wife, Eneida Nuñez. “We’ve spent countless hours just watching the light change.”
In this tropical outpost of the United States, home to some of the oldest buildings in the colonial Americas, trickling water and the play of light have a long history. They were the commonplace pleasures of older San Juan homes, built as early as the 16th century with intimate courtyards in the style of southern Spain. In San Juan a subdued Moorish palette holds sway, not the candy colors one sees in much of the Caribbean...
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Leo cuidadosamente todos los días las opiniones sobre Cuba de agencias tradicionales de prensa, incluidas las de los pueblos que formaron parte de la URSS, las de la República Popular China y otras. Me llegan noticias de órganos de prensa escrita en América Latina, España y el resto de Europa.