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...revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood of the innocent" (he kills babies) and to reunite the entities of the earth and the sea. In Terra em Transe the mysticism shifts to the realm of political and economic power. The right-wing senator Diaz fulfills a Christian mission "to put hysterical traditions in order, through violence and the love of violence," while the populist governor Vierra professes a metaphysic of the masses ("the blood of the people is sacred!") which restrains him from benefiting them materially through force against a feudal system. Paulo Martins...
...elements, leaving nothing to exist as a pure entity (like each image in a montage style), nothing to operate outside of a natural dialectical context. Rocha sees this kind of context as a constant, being a Marxist, and portrays no character without a dual, self-contradictory, internally dialectical nature. Diaz, for example, is continually marching around carrying the black flag of the labor movement in one hand and a crucifix in the other. Martins tells his story, alternating extreme long-shots for a bare objectivity with the jerkiness of hand-held shots that move with the dynamics of a scene...
...Desert. The father of eight, Echeverria is a strong disciplinarian with a puritanical streak. He made it clear last week that he would not tolerate a repetition of the Mexico City student uprisings that preceded the 1968 Olympic Games. Echeverria was Minister of the Interior under outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz when those riots erupted: at least 33 people were shot to death and 500 wounded by police and soldiers. Campus unrest could well plague Echeverria throughout his six-year term, particularly with 150 people still in prison as a result of the 1968 riots...
Post no bills in another nation's pantheon should perhaps be a cardinal rule of international relations. When Richard Nixon went to Mexico two weeks ago to promote neighborly cooperation, both he and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz were probably unaware of a minor war of heroes that is being waged across their border as a result of some careless plinthmanship...
Echeverría, who served as Minister of the Interior throughout Diaz Ordaz's six-year term, promised a government that would be "neither to the right nor to the left, but upward and onward." Initially, he struck observers as a competent machine politician. Now they are not so sure. His tireless stumping, plus the fact that he is the father of eight, persuaded many Mexicans that Echeverría possesses what might be called "macharismo"-the requisite Latin American machismo mixed with political charisma. Dressed casually wherever he went, he dined with peasant families, spoke informally about national...