Word: carreras
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...enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding a horse got 100 lashes. The viceroyalty threw off the rule of Spain in 1823, later crumbled into five warring states. In the 105 revolution-torn years that followed, 18 dictators ruled Guatemala, beginning with the swineherd Rafael Carrera (1839-65) and reaching a savage climax under the megalomaniac General Jorge Ubico, who took power in 1931, held the Indians' wages as low as 3? a day, and was overthrown and exiled in 1944. Jacobo Arbenz is the country's second elected President since then...
...Jorge Carrera Andrada, an Ecuadorian Romantic: "This is the epoch of Icarus' fall, the epoch of burned wings; the poet has become a simple son of the earthly city." (Most of the poets present looked fairly earthly: no-hairs far outnumbered longhairs, and there were only two beards among the 200 bards...
...that Patterson had engaged in "a great imperialist conspiracy against the leaders of Guatemalan institutions." The windy press charges seemed to sum up just about all Guatemala had to say against Patterson. Guatemala's official protest, delivered verbally in Washington by Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Antonio Goubaud Carrera, cited no specific evidence...
...week's end, as Patterson was resting in the Bahamas, the State Department called in Dr. Carrera and roundly rejected his government's protest. But whatever the diplomatic niceties of the situation, it seemed clear that Patterson and Guatemala were thoroughly fed up with each other; if he ever went back it would probably be to pack his trunks...
Bullfight. The sense of an approaching climax kept feelings high. Liberals flocked to Carrera Septima, Bogota's main street, and defied the government ban on demonstrations by gibing at the police and cheering for their party. One enthusiast amused the crowd by making bullfight passes with his coat at a clumsy young policeman charging him with a rifle butt. The cop finally fired from the hip into the air; the torero and his aficionados fled...