Word: companero
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...foreign elite, and the nationalization of luxurious private homes, which are now available at moderate rents to vacationing Cubans. Much of the egalitarianism is symbolic, but it still has a perceptible effect on attitudes. Senor and Senorita have been discredited as the preferred form of address in favor of companero[a], comrade. Castro is never seen publicly in anything other than army fatigues, and other government officials wear work clothes...
...Salud to Companero Daniel Swanson...
...give at mass the next day. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, and a campesino walked in, hat in hand and shoulders bent over in what looked almost like a caricature of humility. "Padre, por favor, pudiera venir al cementerio, para rezar por nuestro companero?" So the priest, his face impassive, put on his black vestment, and we were off to the cemetery to say some prayers over the body of a campesino awaiting burial...
...other times, have faced much greater problems and surmounted them. President Allende once remarked that he had been expelled from his university's socialist organization in the early 1930s for refusing to adopt all of its positions. He had great doubts about his future at the time, the companero presidente recalled; a progressive government had just fallen, he had been repudiated by his own friends, and he did not think socialism would ever come to Chile...
...million flag-waving Cubans turned out in Havana's sunny streets to bid "Bienvenido, Companero Brezhnev." It was the first visit by a Kremlin leader to Cuba since Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited the Caribbean island in 1971-and the biggest crowd Brezhnev had ever received on his frequent travels abroad. Plainly enjoying the effusive Latin welcome, he traded warm abrazos with Castro, and waved continuously on the 25-mile motorcade into Havana from the back of a pale gray open Zil convertible that had been shipped from Moscow, along with a fleet of black Chaika limousines...