Word: cabrera
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Creative Battle. Asturias' creative life, he feels, has come out of a battle-"not an armed battle but a political and civic battle." The son of a judge, he grew up under Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898-1920), a ruthless strongman who imprisoned or murdered his political opponents and all but cut off Guatemala from the outside world. After Estrada's overthrow in 1920 came a series of military-dominated governments that were almost as bad; when Asturias published a set of anti-militaris tic articles, his family persuaded him to move to Europe for his own safety...
...Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy of political novels that attacked widespread "Yankee economic imperialism" in Guatemala, focusing...
...large, high-ceiling conference hall of Caracas' Palacio Blanco was crowded last week with newsmen and television crews. The government had hurriedly called a very unusual press conference. On display were two members of Fidel Castro's Cuban army: Manuel Gil Castellanos, 25, and Pedro Cabrera Torres, 29. Blinking in the glare of klieg lights, the Cubans were escorted into the room, one after the other, were briefly questioned by government information officers, and were then led away to a military prison...
...Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted storytellers (V. S. Reid, Samuel Selvon, Clement Richer, Lydia Cabrera, Albert Helman). Many of them are Negro or part-Negro, and they write in several languages (Dutch, English, French, Spanish). Their works, sampled in this arresting anthology by U.S. Poet Barbara Howes, insistently betray a family resemblance. They are earthy, passionate, gay, fantastic, funny-on the whole, more emotional than intellectual...
...some places, they already have been. In 1920, when Guatemalan Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera was over thrown, market women joined the mob that lynched several of his Cabinet ministers. In 1954 they staged demonstrations that helped bring down the Communist Arbenz regime. In Nicaragua, one Nicolasa Sacasa leads a strong-armed squad of market women in battles against opponents of the Somoza family. And aspiring politicians, far and wide, pay court to the market woman, hoping that she will pass along a favorable word with the groceries...