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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...
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...
Service Only. Such invitations from gringo-distrusting, Catholic Mexico are high testimony to the special approach of the Quakers. Good will, rather than relief, is the prime purpose. The committee furnishes personnel only; the units make a special point of handing out no supplies. And local Mexican authorities -not the Norteamericanos-decide what the volunteers will do and how they will do it. Their activities are bossed by Mexicans and carried out by Mexican methods, however old-fashioned they may seem by U.S. standards. As in all Friends Service Committee undertakings, religion is manifested in deed rather than word...
...Juan Burham told Guayaquil police, "until the North American soldiers came to Salinas." After that, sales doubled. At one time the integrated farm-to-market Burham system had produced around 900 smokes a day, most of them inhaled by U.S. troops in Ecuador. Then, about the time the gringo customers were ordered home, Orley Burham died. Rosa, whom he had married two years before his death, tried to carry...