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...Peasant Unity Committee but has neither backed nor denounced the rebels and their use of violence. Before the prize was announced, a military - spokesman argued that giving it to her "would be a political victory for the guerrillas." On the contrary, wrote columnist Alfonso Portillo in the daily Siglo 21, "she makes those who are guided by hate, racism, selfishness and stupidity tremble...
...17th and 18th centuries -- Murillo, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Goya and now lo Spagnoletto, "the Little Spaniard," as Ribera was known to his Italian admirers -- designed to close gaping holes in our collective art-historical knowledge, and to make concrete sense of the pictorial achievements of what imperial Spain called its siglo de oro, its golden century...
...mind: toresdors, flamenco guitars. Carmen, and Don Quixote. Unfortunately, this romantic ideal has been all but trampled out by paternajistic yet persistent fascism. The political realities of Spain, a country of loosely bound provinces and great internal strife, obliterate the Spain of the Moors, of El Greco, and the Siglo...
Allende is a Marxist who has sought to work through the constitutional framework, and he has promised to "guarantee democratic rights and respect individual freedoms" (see box). But he has also vowed to expropriate the right-wing newspaper El Mercurio, leading Chileans to speculate cynically that El Siglo, the Communist party organ, will soon become the best-read paper in the country, and, they say "it will be printed on better presses too-Mercurio's." The Moscow-aligned Communists, a minority partner in Allende's Popular Front coalition, will probably play a disproportionately important role...
...chief of the government's Comibol mining enterprise declared that Catavi-Siglo Veinte was being closed "temporarily" because of "extremist agitators." But the next day, Co-Presidents Barrientos and Ovando ordered the mining complex reopened. Troops had already rooted out the troublemakers and packed 300 of them off to government colonization projects in the country's rugged north. Clearly, there was more behind the uprising than a local labor dispute. "Wages are not really important," admitted one union leader. "What we want is the overthrow of the military dictatorship...