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...Joaquina Frias, the president's 73-year-old aunt, sits on the porch of her small house in the sweltering heat in Sabaneta, the Barinas town where Hugo Chavez was born. When Hugo was a child, she says, he told other children that he would become President, and when he did he would fix a broken water fountain in front of their school. Others, like childhood friend and neighbor Flor Figueredo, don't recall Chavez showing much political ambition back then. Except once. "He made a comment that with there being so much oil in Venezuela, look...
...Benazir Bhutto returned to Karachi after exile in 1986, Nazir Ahmad Baloch woke up early, pinned a button of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to his shirt and danced out the door chanting "Long Live Bhutto." "He was crazy," says his aunt, Anipa Banno. "The party never did anything for him, but he believed in their slogan, 'Bread, Shelter and Clothes.' He was a party diehard." Bhutto had fled Pakistan when her father, former President and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was toppled in a military coup and later executed. But she went back to pick...
Ward, whose aunt, uncle, and parents were all evacuated earlier this week, went on to note that few Harvard students are aware of the destruction being wrought on the opposite coast...
...building. This led to the high point of animal inhabitancy: seven cats, three humans, and two goldfish I won at the Presbyterian Church carnival, a veritable menagerie in a two-bedroom apartment.I guess I grew up in a family where pets were members of the family. My childless aunt and uncle sent us photos of their Scottie dogs every few months, and queries about the cats (“How are Castor and Pollux?”) always followed the personal greeting when we called my grandmother. One of the Presbyterian goldfish lived for five years with my three cats...
...burning down.” “This is where my uncle lives,” said Ward, pointing at a spot near the red region of the map. “Red means it’s burning.” Ward, whose aunt, uncle, and parents were all evacuated earlier this week, went on to note that few Harvard students are aware of the destruction be wreaked on the opposite coast. “Most people are like, ‘What are you doing?’” she said...