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...setting was a vast hall in Cuba's government office building, the Palacio de la Revolucion. At first the 68-year-old Cuban leader ``struck me as looking rather frail,'' observes Prager. ``Older than I thought.'' But ``as we got to dinner and we got into a conversation and the adrenaline began to flow, he became the kind of Castro you think Castro ought to be. Lively. Articulate. Talks with his hands, looks...
...death "Sonora's version of the John F. Kennedy assassination." Mourners gathered in the giant square in front of party headquarters in Mexico City, carrying banners with Colosio's name. "Justice! Justice!" they cried. Now the party may reap a sympathy vote. "Yesterday," declared Reforma columnist Raymundo Riva Palacio the day after the assassination, "the P.R.I. won the election...
...athletes weren't the only ones piling up the medals in Barcelona. TIME's art critic Robert Hughes also excelled when he was awarded the first prize for literature in the Olimpiada Cultural. In a ceremony at the Palacio | de la Zarzuela, Hughes was honored by the government of Catalonia for his book Barcelona. The prize, which was presented by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, included a bronze Miro trophy...
...such problems, Washington has been considering pulling its agents out of Mexico altogether, and some Mexicans have indicated that they would not be sorry to see them go. "Mexico forcefully rejects any attempt to violate its sovereignty in the pursuit of narcotics traffickers," said Senate Leader Antonio Riva Palacio. In practice, however, American drug agents seem unlikely to leave Mexico, where they have operated since the 1930s. The U.S. needs Mexican help in fighting the incoming flow of drugs, and Mexico needs the goodwill of its northern neighbor to cope with the Latin American country's $98 billion foreign debt...
...American capitalists wanted him too. In 1930, when he did his enormous fresco cycle of Mexican history in the Palacio de Cortes at Cuernavaca, a work that made no bones about his Communist sympathies, his $12,000 fee was paid by Dwight W. Morrow, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. In 1931 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller bought Rivera's sketchbook of the 1928 May Day parade in Moscow...