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...more like a winner. His four rivals were unable to unite; the two strongest-right-wing ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin and conservative Vice President Francisco Augusto Lora-lagged far behind. The man who would have proved Balaguer's strongest opponent, ex-President Juan Bosch, was abstaining from participation in the election, and so was his Dominican Revolutionary Party, the country's largest political party. Explained Bosch, a Utopian with a strong emotional following among the poor who was overthrown by the military in 1963 after only seven months in office: "Elections...
When sheriff's deputies arrived, the scene resembled a Bosch vision of hell. "Some of them were staring," said one. "Some were unusually happy. Some were sick. People were screaming. Some said the walls were moving. One man cried that his hands were getting bigger and bigger. It looked like a madhouse...
Among the "thousands" (a highly doubtful figure) who were executed there were several hundred Batistiano army officers and police chiefs-by no means idle dissenters. Jaccbo Arbenz and Juan Bosch know that these legally appointed criminals are always the first to topple any leftist government. These are the various factions which the Magaralos feel should have been given a "voice," together with the millionaires, the latifundistas, those who held high jobs in American businesses, and the landlords. Perhaps it is better for Cuba that these "dissenters" have left...
...Pepe" Figueres-sometimes called El Enano (the dwarf) because he stands only 5 ft. 3 in.-is the grand old man of Latin America's democratic left. In the small band of democratic reformers (including Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt. the Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Peru's Raul Haya de la Torre) who only recently seemed to be Latin America's best hope for nonviolent change, he remains one of the few effective survivors...
...SUPPORTING players round out the organic unit of the group. They communicated the visceral meaning of a squalid poverty in their coarseness and their greed. The cast studied the peasant-figures of Breughel and Bosch when they first began to think about their characters during their own ten weeks of rehearsal, integrating their visual impressions with sensitivity exercises. The influence of the two artists can also be seen on the backdrop, which is essentially a giant scroll set on its side and rolled to different panels by the entering actors. Arnold Trachtman's black-and-white murals are intriguingly similar...