Word: ceiba
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...away, in San Lorenzo, there is a military barracks where they were not aware or did not choose to be aware of what was happening. When I arrived in San Lorenzo, I was impressed by the youth of the soldiers. Some, really just children, were playing beneath the luxuriant ceiba tree that shades the main square. "In theory the recruits are not younger than 16," says General Vides Casanova. "But in practice there are many 15-year-olds...
...candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square. The little parade passes by rusting cars, yelping dogs, gawkers peering out of their doorways while washing their hair or looking on while drying off with a towel...
...vitality and grace. Even the supernatural is treated in a tone as matter of fact as a fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact with the Devil, the old Congolese told me, he should take a hammer and a big nail, look for a young ceiba-tree in the countryside and hammer on the trunk hard three time. As soon as the bugger hears this call, he come, quite cool and cocky, as if he didn't care a damn...
...HONDURAS Under the Ministry of Health, nurses will teach in the National School of Nursing in La Ceiba, in schools for auxiliaries or in hospitals. Social workers will work with the Justa Nacional de Bienestar Social in community centers, coops, small industries, clubs, health, recreation, arts and crafts and in public health campaigns. Those Volunteers working with the head start program will turn pre-school feeding stations sponsored by the local communuity, municipality or INBS into unofficial kindergartens...
...flag-draped platform in the main square of La Ceiba, a banana port that has seen better days, President Ramon Villeda Morales of Honduras put democratic principles to personal test. A Communist speaker had just told a labor rally that Honduras had betrayed Latin America by breaking relations with Castro's Cuba.* Answered Villeda Morales: "The speaker who preceded me was exercising his right of free speech. But I ask you to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia." So saying, he stepped down and strode away...