Word: camilo
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When the Swedish Academy last week announced its choice for the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, the reaction across the globe might be summarized as Que Cela, Cela? Was the award to Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela, 73, another example of the Academy's penchant for giving unheard-of writers undreamt-of recognition? Yes, in the sense that Cela has not had much impact outside his native land for a quarter-century. But on reflection, the better answer is no, for Cela, though now little read, has amassed a body of powerful, disturbing work -- and lived a risky, iconoclastic life...
July 29, Illinois Jacquet and His Big Band, and Michel Camilo Trio Clubs...
...avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until the Sandinistas took Managua...
...world's largest hydroelectric project, which has a dam almost five miles long. To date, nine years after it was begun, Itaipu has cost $18 billion and has generated not a single kilowatt of electricity for Brazil and only a small amount for Paraguay. Says Joāo Camilo Penna, the Minister of Industry and Commerce: "We have $50 billion worth of incomplete projects with zero degree of usefulness...
...expense of employment is misplaced in developing countries. Finally, it is held, the IMF's insistence on suppressing consumer demand is inconsistent and self-defeating: carried to its logical conclusion on a global scale, it would stifle international trade. Says Brazilian Industry Minister Joāo Camilo Penna: "If the IMF's prescription of austerity and slower economic growth to get a country back on its feet is applied to one or two countries, the medicine can work. But if it is given to an entire continent-or, worse, to every developing country in the world-then...