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...unexpected that Radio Nacional's announcer actually sputtered the words of the communiqué. Within hours, caravans of honking cars, draped with red flags, snaked through the streets of Madrid. Jubilant leftists sang militant choruses of the long-banned Internationale, and a huge PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE ESPAÑA sign was posted outside party headquarters. Suarez's action was generally applauded by Spain's left and center politicians, who regarded the lifting of the ban as a litmus of the regime's commitment to democracy...
Right-wingers were predictably shocked by the legalization of the party. Some ultrarightists, shouting "Arriba España!" (Up with Spain! the old nationalist rallying cry), rode through Madrid in an auto caravan of their own. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Franco's former Information and Tourism Minister and leader of the powerful rightist party Alianza Popular, thundered, "What has happened is an authentic coup d 'état that has transformed reform into rupture...
...barely audible voice, but that was all he needed. Spain was under assault by "a leftist Masonic conspiracy," he said, and was a victim of politicking "by certain corrupt countries." But no one, he declared, should forget that "to be Spanish is to be something in the world. Arriba, España!" Up with Spain...
This is an ambitious book. Rita Guibert, an Argentine and former LIFE en Español reporter, confronts the fact that though Latin American literature is now often acclaimed as perhaps the richest and most original in the world, it simply has not caught on with U.S. readers. Part of the problem, as has long been recognized, is language-though translations are generally improving and are sometimes excellent. A greater impediment is a kind of cultural preconception, an unstated assumption that any art flourishing in Latin America will be too exotic or too frivolous for North American tastes. Rita Guibert...
...Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...