Word: gringo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toughest of all were the backwoods villages, where farmers suspected a gringo plot to poison their animals, and priests preached against interference with God's will. There the Apostles used any methods they could think of, giving more movie shows, bringing friends of local farmers from other villages to argue for them. In the village of Tula, Jalisco, when all else failed, the Apostles hauled in a load of pulque and set up free drinks. Next morning the villagers awoke with roaring hangovers, found that all their cattle had been vaccinated...
Just outside Acapulco, on the road to Mexico City, is a little garden restaurant called El Parque Cachú. Its proprietor, a grey little man known to his neighbors as el gringo, hid his Nordic blue eyes behind dark glasses as he served beer and tacos in the shade of his cashew trees...
When the neighbors got too curious about el gringo's big library, his Mexican wife apologized: "He's a rare one. He doesn't like to make friends. He mostly just works in the restaurant or at his desk...
...story proved beyond a doubt that el gringo was born in Chicago of Swedish parents 58 years ago; that he had lived in Mexico since 1913; that he had once worked in the Tampico oilfields. It proved that his name was Berick Torsvan-and that he was B. Traven...
Afterwards, Pedagogue Haya, whose left-wing political movement began as a workers' university a quarter of a century ago, got down to party business. Because gringo eyes are on Apra, he warned, Aprista pupils must work harder than ever. Classes must be expanded. Discipline, already tight, must be tighter. Aprista workers, said Haya, must learn that strikes are weapons of last resort and must not be used irresponsibly, for "that would be like a traffic cop pulling out a revolver and shooting every time someone crossed the street on a red light...