Word: galv
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...dictator could not very well overlook evidence that his colonial administration was gypping the home government by permitting local businesses to sell their goods abroad at a fat profit instead of shipping them back to Portugal at government-controlled prices-but he did not have to like it. Playwright Galvão was quietly dropped from the list of acceptable Assembly candidates by the nation's only political party, and soon afterward was hauled off to jail on charges of plotting against the regime...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...