Word: avellaneda
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...article that makes bride-selling a criminal act. Such action is opposed by many who see indigenous traditions as a virtue of Mexico's cultural diversity. Demonizing arranged marriages is the latest portrayal of Indians as savages that has continued during five centuries since the Spanish conquest, says Ximena Avellaneda of the Rosario Castellanos Women House. "Why do Americans attack an arranged marriage between Triquis and say nothing about million-dollar marriage contracts between Hollywood stars?" she says. "Relationships between teenagers are also common in many communities, not just among indigenous people...
...week assailed "the treason of the United States" and the "hopeless hysteria of England," singling out President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "mediocre" and "short of stature." On the Sunday just before Pope John Paul II was due to arrive in Argentina, Archbishop Antonio Quarracino of Avellaneda delivered a sermon that smacked of spiritual oneupmanship. "The Pope visited England as a duty ... He comes to us because of love...
Carlos was put in a "very proper" Buenos Aires boarding school, Nicolas Avellaneda. He says he stayed there till he was 15, acquiring the Spanish (he already spoke Italian and Portuguese) in which he would later interview Don Juan. But he became so unmanageable that an uncle, the family patriarch, had him placed with a foster family in Los Angeles. In 1951 he moved to the U.S. and enrolled at Hollywood High. Graduating about two years later, he tried a course in sculpture at Milan's Academy of Fine Arts, but "I did not have the sensitivity or the openness...
...that there were no ties whatsoever between the church and the new regime. "The church," he said, "does not seek privileges or political tasks. It demands only liberty in exercising its mission." A few days later, Bishop Jerónimo Podesta, 46, leader of Buenos Aires' diocese of Avellaneda (pop. 1,200,000), went on record in the Buenos Aires magazine Primera Plana. "The church," he noted, "wants to serve the modern world, and this does not mean to serve such and such a government. Identification with any political regime would be harmful to the church." Meantime, several priests...
...Evita and the union bosses began scheming to free him. The chance came when Perón was brought back to Buenos Aires' military hospital for a lung examination. Next morning, Oct. 17, 1945, some 50,000 trade unionists streamed across the bridge from the packinghouse quarter of Avellaneda. Most of the mob were coatless-a shocking sight in staid Buenos Aires-and some, even worse, were shirtless. They marched to the hospital and to the palace, ominously bellowing...
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