Word: haya
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...carefully knocked the ash from his Ignacio Haya Gold Label cigar into the shiny new dashboard tray. At each traffic light, his dark eyes surveyed the car's interior and his fingers roamed over every piece of metal and fabric within reach. At one light, the driver of a Chevrolet Impala pulled along side and mouthed through his closed window: "Is that it?" He was left behind in the exhaust. As the white car approached a school bus and slowed again, the win dows flew up and the children in side chanted: "Mustang! Mustang! Mustang!" This week Ford...
...Colombia was not required to surrender Peru's leftish leader, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, who had taken asylum in the Colombian embassy in Lima...
Across his path stand barriers of political enmity and grudge. A year ago, in a disputed three-way election, old-time Revolutionary Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 68, beat Belaúnde by a bare 12,867 votes, but did not win the legally required one-third majority. The army, which bitterly dislikes Haya, an nulled the election and took over the country. Fairly defeated this time by Belaúnde but still feeling cheated, Haya last week joined political forces with the third candidate, ex-Dictator General Manuel Odría, 65, to form an alliance...
...seven years, nine months, two weeks and a few odd days, the cellar has been home to Brothers Juan Carlos Cardoso, 46, and Luis Amadeo Cardoso, 41, making them easily the current champions in that treasured Latin American institution known as political asylum. Only Peru's Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, who fled to the Colombian embassy in Lima in 1949 - holed up for five years, three months, four days - ever approached their record...
...rallies during a general strike, and staged an exciting prison break, attempting to swim to an escape boat. The break failed (he swam to the wrong boat), but Peruvians thrilled to the story. In last year's abortive election, he lost by a bare 12,867 votes to Haya de la Torre, and then, crying fraud, attempted to lead his supporters in rebellion. At that point, the military stepped in to settle the issue...