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...book's hero is Don Rigoberto, a well-to-do widower in Lima who has recently married Dona Lucrecia: "In his youth he had been a fervent militant in Catholic Action and dreamed of changing the world." The grownup Rigoberto has set his sights on a different goal: the pursuit of moments of transcendent personal pleasure. These he seeks in his nightly sessions in the bathroom, where, according to a strict schedule ("The Wednesday Ear Ritual"), he cleans and maintains a different portion of his anatomy; then he gallops toward the marriage bed for inventive trysts with the compliant Lucrecia...
...weeks ago. But Chamorro has called on the contras to disband, and Ciguena doubts that she can function as President without him and his fellow fighters. "The Sandinistas," Ciguena warns, "are very treacherous. If we turn in our arms now, they'll finish us off and go after Dona Violeta. It's the Sandinistas that must disarm...
That these two antagonists sought out Chamorro at precisely the same moment was appropriate. Seven weeks shy of inauguration, Dona Violeta already refers to her administration as a "period of reconciliation." Her mission as President, she believes, is to heal...
...Dona Violeta's early campaign appearances were frightfully inept. Confronted with issues she had not mastered, she often berated her questioners or deferred to running mate Virgilio Godoy. By January she had learned to stick to prepared speeches and emphasize her personal appeal. Her radiant smile and motherly concern warmed Nicaraguans chilled by a decade of Ortega's martial scowls...
Empathy may be her greatest virtue as President. Nicaraguans have been killing one another in revolution and civil war for more than a decade. Who knows these divisions better than Dona Violeta? She is the widow of a man murdered for his political beliefs, and a mother reviled as a traitor by two of her children, who are committed to the revolution. Yet never have her Sandinista son and daughter been unwelcome in her home. That kind of tolerance ; is hard for an embittered nation to summon up. It should help to have an exemplar who has experienced anguish firsthand...