Word: guayabera
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...some time this policy did bring American investment. Since then, however, wages have risen, and the mobile sewing and light assembly industries have closed down and moved on to Hong Kong, Haiti, Columbia--anywhere they can still get labor for under a dollar an hour. Ironically, even the guayabera, the traditional embroidered shirt that is worn as a symbol of cultural pride, is now imported from South Korea...
...rocked their sloop during an afternoon sail. Kissinger finally negotiated a truce halfway through the ten-day honeymoon. In exchange for a press conference, the newsmen agreed to leave the couple alone. Summoning the press to the house of Mexican Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa, Kissinger, dressed in a white guayabera (a casual Mexican shirt), was his usual genial self. Nancy, peering from behind oversized sunglasses, was tense, and she did not find the barrage of personal questions reassuring. "How many children will you have?" demanded a reporter. Nancy, who is, according to friends, "crazy about children," replied warily...
...first thing that impresses one about Washington is the lack of guayaberas [the loose-fitting Cuban shirt]. I failed to find even one in the U.S. And so my first prediction for today is: the guayabera will never catch on in Washington...
...polls closed promptly at 6 p.m. By 7:15, smiling, handsome Carlos Prio Socarras had heard enough of the returns to know that he would be Cuba's next President. He left the Havana headquarters of the Auténtico Party, hustled home to change his guayabera (sport shirt) and slacks for a white linen suit. Then he rode off to the presidential palace in a horn-tooting, placard-plastered motorcade...
...Liberal party leaders had turned out crowds to wave at Presidential Candidate Ricardo Núñez Portuondo. By the time he made his speech of the day, at Pinar del Rio, it was 1 a.m. "People are sick and tired of four years of Grauism," he thundered. The guayabera-clothed farmers had stayed to cheer. "Fuera-out with them," they yelled...