Word: azteca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whips & Sticks. Pedro Martinez, a fictitious name chosen to preserve anthropological anonymity, is a more fully developed character than any single Sanchez child, more intricately related to his country's disheveled past and closer to its soil. Pedro's setting is "Azteca" (another pseudonym), an ancient farming village in the stony highlands about 60 miles south of Mexico City. Like most Mexican peasant children, he had a haphazard upbringing. His father died when he was three months old, after which his mother, "being just a girl, she got herself a boy" and went off with him. Pedro...
...Macario (Azteca). The Day of the Dead. All over Mexico, children are laughing and eating candy skulls. All over Mexico, Death is grinning and eating children. Through the village streets the peons carry La Muerte in sugar sculpture, larger than life. Through the land La Muerte strides, the hollow specter of starvation. It pauses at the hut of Macario the woodcutter (Ignacio Lopez Tarso). Six mouths to feed, and only a fistful of frijoles left. Bitterly, Macario cries aloud: "All my life I have been hungry-never once have I had enough to eat! Now I swear I will...