Word: clemencia
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Yglesias' family is almost Dostoevskian in size and complexity. Its three generations stem from three aged sisters-Dolores, Clemencia and Mina. Among the younger men, Armando is a sex-starved punk who works for the local numbers racketeer; Esteban runs guns to a revolutionist named Castro; Robert fiddles on the periphery of the left wing but lacks the will to fish or cut bait. A domineering, money-mad daughter, Elena, is married to a Batista speechwriter who regularly hauls huge bundles of cash from Havana to a Miami bank and is contemptuous of all the pin-poor folk...
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