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These enterprising individuals had coordinated the customized lettering on their shirts to spell out “ABAJO FIDEL”—roughly translated, in English, as “Down With Fidel”—when they stood next to each other. They also displayed a smaller, similar sign with the same message...
...then 15. The road dips and rises, twists and turns. The car clatters, the body shakes. Finally, Grand View Point comes in sight. Walk to the edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast, the La Sal Mountains loom, while before you in the distance tower the Abajo Mountains. Spread out below is an immense rock garden, burnished red and brown and buff. The sun bursts through the clouds, first lighting the Six-Shooter Peaks, then Cathedral Butte. The Colorado and Green rivers meander deep in the shadows, carving their signatures into the mesa with canyons...
...about the bad publicity Cuba was reaping in the Latin American press. To counter it, he staged a massive rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. More than a million Cubans marched through Havana, chanting "iQue se vayan!" (let them go) and hoisting signs reading ABAJO LA GUSANERA (down with the worms), a favorite Havana expression about expatriates...
...Quito and 170 miles away in the main port of Guayaquil, thousands of high school and university students, representing a wide swath of political orientation, poured into downtown streets, slinging rocks and chanting "Abajo la dictadura!" and "Viva la constitución!" Army troops and marines moved in with tear gas and clubs, arresting scores of demonstrators. Sixteen political leaders were rounded up and deported, and in Guayaquil, where two high school students were killed by stray bullets, the junta declared martial...
...Renacimiento Theatre for the showing of a German propaganda film, The Siegfried Line. They did not know that 100-odd young Argentine hotbloods. mostly athletes and amateur boxers, had also decided to see The Siegfried Line that night. When the Nazis began shouting "Heil Hitler!" the natives responded with "Abajo Hitler!" and a barrage of jumbo firecrackers. The lights went on, women screamed, and the Argentines systematically went to work on the Hitlerites. Police who tried to break up the melee had their clubs snatched and used on the Germans. Two score Argentines were arrested and released next day. Showing...