Word: castillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apolinar Castillo is slight for his eleven years. But size is an advantage for Apolinar, who has been a farm laborer since he was five. He can reach down to the squat chili bushes with ease; his nimble little hands are perfect for plucking ripe chili peppers. "He can pick faster than any of us," beams his father Luis, who works alongside...
Apolinar's stature confers another benefit: when state labor inspectors make their infrequent visits, he can crawl into a nearby irrigation ditch and hide. Last week, however, a sharp-eyed inspector caught Apolinar. If he had ordered him to leave the fields, the Castillo family would have to go without the $2.70 that his average 48 lbs. of peppers a day contributes to their earnings -and one of his five brothers and sisters might have gone hungry...
...still to early to tell whether the recent efforts by students to organize themselves will succeed or, if they fail, what positions the inevitable factions will take. Two rival camps are slowly emerging, however. One camp is led by Heberto Castillo, an engineering professor at UNAM who organized the teacher faction which supported the students in 1968, and by Cervantes Cabeza de Vaca, one of the most charismatic student leaders. Castillo and other long experienced radicals spent two years in jail after the 1968 movement. While in Lecumberri prison (the same prison where Hyland is now staying) they greatly influenced...
...Castillo and Cabeza de Vaca are currently campaigning throughout Mexico for a national student party. They argue that the demonstration of June 10 was a foolish waste of lives since President Echeverria had freed all student prisoners shortly before the protest, thus removing any reason to have the march in the first place. Generally they believe that Echeverria would like to create a more open democracy, but that powerful business interests connected with American firms will discourage the president from his good intentions unless a student party can push him the other...
...second camp, which is united in its opposition to Castillo, argues that he has misinterpreted the position and the power of the Mexican president. They claim that a student party would be bought off by the president like other protest groups in the past. Castillo is Echeverria's dupe, they say, and the president would exhibit the impotent student party as proof to Western visitors that he accepts opposition. Their utter distrust for the system has led these student groups to more radical activity than forming political parties. Some groups have joined the guerrilla movements in the mountainous states surrounding...