Word: ernesto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Tie. Guests at a Cuban embassy reception, including Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov, ogled a revolution in clothes: Castro, in a sharp green uniform, with comandante's star, white shirt and black tie. "It was orders," explained the Prime Minister, pointing to Cuban Ambassador to the U.S. Ernesto Dihigo. "I don't like...
...brought the decree was essentially a local one: in Sicily an aggressive, spectacled politico named Silvio Malazzo had broken away from the mainland Christian Democrats to lead an alliance of Christian Democrats, Communists, Socialists and Fascists. He is facing his first electoral test in June, and Sicily's Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini had asked the Vatican for ammunition...
...armed forces a leftist and fellow-traveler network reaches high up: Argentine-born Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, commander of Havana's La Cabana Fortress, who joined a militia of Arbenz Communists in Guatemala; Army Commander in Chief Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, who spent 1952-53 studying in Prague and Budapest; Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), boss of the army information program; Major Manuel Pineiro, commander of Oriente and supervisor of a secret training center in Santiago, where anti-American propaganda is used to indoctrinate officer candidates...
From that moment Vincenzina knew what she must do. She bought a butcher knife, tucked it inside a newspaper and started walking. She found Ernesto, her first love, at a bus stop. "Vincenzina, you are prettier than ever," Ernesto began, but he did not finish. Vincenzina fell upon him with the knife, stabbing him in the chest and stomach...
...trial Vincenzina told the judge: "I had to kill him to restore my honor. There was no other way." Luckily, Ernesto survived the knifing, and the judge, allowing that "a woman must be the guardian of her own honor," sentenced Vincenzina to a mild three years in jail...