ISKCON Flourishing in Latin America

Returning from a ten-week tour of Latin America, His Holiness Hrdayananda dasa Gosvami, director of ISKCON's activities in that part of the world, reported that the Krsna consciousness movement is flourishing there. "We're even distributing Srila Prabhupada's books in the middle of the Amazon jungle," he said. He went on to describe how a small party of devotees rode a jungle boat up the Amazon river to the city of Manaus in the interior of Brazil. They stayed there for one week, distributing literature and giving talks on Krsna consciousness.

Elsewhere in Brazil, thirty devotees transformed a large house in the modern city of Sao Paulo into a gracious temple. They're looking forward to touring the country in a newly acquired bus to distribute the forthcoming Portuguese-language Sri Īsopanisad, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and Bhagavad-gita. Another new facility is a beautiful fifty-acre farm about one hundred miles north of Rio de Janeiro.

In San Jose, Costa Rica, His Holiness met with acting President Jose Guzman and later made two one-hour guest appearances on Costa Rica's most popular TV talk show.

And in Trinidad, the devotees went to court after the police tried to stop their public chanting of Hare Krsna. The verdict? "Why are you bothering these respectable young men and women?" the judge asked the police. "Let them go on with their work. They're doing good."