Word: cortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cortés spent the next two years virtually walled up in his father's house-hidden in a hollow space of 3 ft. by 6 ft., originally intended as a cupboard. "Sometimes I would come out at night," he says, "but the house was often searched in those days." Then, in 1941, the landlord told the family that they must leave the house and find another. They managed to find one with a conveniently similar wall cupboard elsewhere in the town, and Cortés made the move by night, dressed in women's clothes, his head...
Warm Abrazos. There, Corts was hidden in an upper room, small, bare-containing only a bed, a chair, an electric heater, a radio and a single picture of Jesus Christ. Though the years stretched out in a monotony of sameness, there was always the fear of detection. With his father now dead, Cortés realized that each pack of cigarettes, each shirt his wife bought could give them away. Juliana became a peddler and would go down to Málaga to sell Mijas' hemp products and to buy miscellaneous goods and clothes for resale in Mijas...
...wife's job created a job for Cortés. Hidden as he was, he could at last make himself useful, tying strips of esparto grass into bundles that Juliana sold for home weaving. Once he took sick with violent stomach cramps. He described the pain in detail to Juliana, "until she could feel it herself." She then went to the local doctor, told him about the pain as if it were her own and brought the medicine prescribed home to her husband...
Freedom after 30 years has had an understandably numbing effect on Cort...
...lights and the blaring sock-it-to-'em jukeboxes. What he likes best of all is to slip off the uncomfortable shoes as he takes the sun in the tiny inner patio prohibited to him for so many years. Sitting there, at peace with himself and the world, Cortés says: "At last, for me, the war is over...