As a gesture of goodwill, Mexico has transferred to American ownership a total of 138, 000 acre-feet of water in theAmistad and Falcon international dams.
The event coincides with the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade and some of the participating students are travelling on a replica of theAmistad which is retracing the Slave Trade Route.
But the break-out moment in Hounsou's acting career came three years later with Steven Spielberg's "Amistad, " where he appeared alongside Hollywood legends Anthony Hopkins and Morgan Freeman.