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...ADALBERTO GORBITZ...
That was not all. Led by a guide provided by Rio Grande's Mayor Adalberto Cuevas, the young archeologists tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone...
...Well then, he must not publish it in the Veracruz Official Gazette, thereby making it law. But the Gazette's press was already clanking and groaning last week when President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico finally decided to send an urgent, peremptory wire to Governor Adalberto Tejeda of the State of Veracruz...
...Jalapa the more Governor Adalberto Tejeda thought about the law the better he liked it. Rumors from Mexico City that he would kill it only made him more stubborn. At last Governor Tejeda substituted for the word "social" the word "public" (a change of no importance ordered the revised law printed in a new edition of the Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented...
...General Adalberto Palacios joined laughingly in a joke that was causing some merriment to the spectators of his approaching death. Then, he rebuked them, saying: "This is no laughing matter...