Word: benitez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, whip-smart young Jesuit named Father Hernan Benitez saw to it that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
...gave an unprecedented private showing from four of the best-known houses of French haute couture. Other women have to go to the dressmakers; but the dressmakers came to Evita. Members of her entourage said she was "very tired." She canceled an appointment to visit the Louvre, and Father Benitez pinch-hit for her on the radio...
...Paris, Señora Lucienne Benitez Rexach, wife of a Puerto Rican millionaire, drowned her sorrows in champagne. From her hotel suite outside Paris, thieves had stolen $435,000 of her jewels and pocket money. But the victim, who before her recent marriage was a café singer known to Montmartre as Môme Moineau (Kid Sparrow), considers the burglars outrageously inefficient: in the same suite they overlooked another cache of jewels (value...
Once he was sure that the danger was real, Ambassador Braden acted vigorously. Making a nice diplomatic distinction between "intervention" and "intercession," he sent word to both Batista and Benitez that such undemocratic shenanigans were not in order. If Dr. Grau were kept from his lawful office, the U.S. would throw an airtight blockade around Cuba...
Impressed by this warning, many of Benitez's officer friends deserted him. But Benitez did not give up at once. At one formal gathering, in Ambassador Braden's presence, Benitez denounced both Batista and Grau, kept calling each of them "cabrón" (Cuban for son-of-a-bitch). Then Batista struck. He fired Benitez from the Army, packed him off to Miami. For Señor (no longer General) Benitez, Ambassador Braden issued a rush-order visa...