Word: cristina
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...smitten with the well-bred Spanish beauty of Beatriz María Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Patiño fortune on the reasonably sound ground that, as a Bolivian, Patiño is subject to the Bolivian law that foreign divorces are legal only when the nation in which the marriage was performed (in this case, divorceless Spain) permits divorce...
Leaning heavily on his spirited and strongly Marxist wife Maria Cristina (nicknamed "Maruca"), Arbenz left Mexico, alighted briefly in France and in Switzerland, where $2,000,000 of Guatemalan government money reportedly waited in a numbered bank account. Then he settled in Prague. In 1956 he visited Moscow for several months, but the Russians sized him up as a lightweight, Marxist-wise. Leaving his two daughters in a Russian boarding school, he headed back to the Western Hemisphere, landing in Montevideo in May 1957. Politically, he observed the rules of asylum by masking his Communist contacts as Russian language lessons...