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...Sandinistas, who take their name from Augusto C??sar Sandino, a guerrilla leader assassinated on orders of Somoza's father in 1934, identify each other by numbers during terrorist operations. The commander is always cero (zero...
...does not possess the discreet elegance of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honoré, the stylishness of Rome's Via Condotti or the hustling excitement of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But the very rich find most of the store names cozy and familiar: Courrèges, Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, C??line, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain, Pierre Deux and Lothars of Paris. Others are of questionable vintage: Giorgio, Mr. Guy, even a Jerry Magnin store that has the temerity to put sale soccer shoes in its window. In all, 60 stores along 2½ blocks...
...culture society, and the last thing it wants is austerity. The evidence of that attitude is almost everywhere. The France of sunny sidewalk cafés and smoky boîtes is now, also, the France of 536 Wimpy hamburger mills, dizzy discothéques and monumental traffic jams. Vacationers on the C??te d'Azur looking for bargain accommodations now stop at modern motels as well as at the traditional spartan pensions...
...less biased, but strangely equivocal. He shows how, when Carranza was overthrown, the remaining Zapatista leaders won pivotal roles in the government of Obregon. The ejido program of the early twenties, which granted previously-claimed land to villages, was a Zapatista victory. The boost given the ejidos by C??¡rdenas in the thirties nearly satisfied the revolutionary goals of the Morelos villagers...
...returning to Zapata's own village today, Womack finds that though the campesinos survive in the sixties, they do not prosper. They have been bypassed, shunted aside by the industrialized Mexico which began under C??¡rdenas, the man who protected their interests. In Five Families, Oscar Lewis draws a similarly dismal picture--a day in the life of a family in Tepotzlan, one of the Morelos villages, and a day in the life of a Tepotzlan family which has moved to a working-class barrio in Mexico City. Both families continue to exist as their revolutionary ancestors did--marginally...