Word: bolivares
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BELLE FICTION: In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa -- Would you believe an erotic family novel? The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The autumn of Simon Bolivar. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut -- Meditations of a Vietnam vet in 2001. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry -- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters...
...President Virgilio Barco has slowly been coming to terms with them. The first to switch from outlaw group to political party is M-19, a 1970s leftist band of middle-class guerrillas who moved from symbolic displays of conscience, like holding "hostage" the sword of Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar, to acts of terror and violence. In 1985 M-19 bungled a takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice, triggering a battle with government forces that left more than 100 dead...
...array of products, including imported raw materials and gasoline (at 13 cents per gal., perhaps the cheapest in the world). Exempted from the price hikes were 18 staples, including bread, rice and chicken. Perez also promised to raise fees for government-provided goods and services and to allow the bolivar to float downward on international currency markets, a move that would boost import prices...
...longer would a Harvard graduate, it was reasoned, earn his or her diploma without encountering the reasoning--if not the works--of thinkers such as Plato and Shakespeare, Newton and Picasso, Bolivar and Machiavelli...
After winning independence from Britain, the fledgling United States established a democracy that reflected the character of the colonizers. Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries tried to emulate the American Constitution, but their carefully crafted documents were quickly subverted by strongmen. When Augustin de Iturbide, Mexico's George Washington, assumed power in 1822, for example, he immediately had himself crowned Emperor. The Great Experiment never took firm root in Mexico or the rest of Latin America, causing a great deal of misunderstanding that persists to this...