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Mexicans will be interested to learn, in Henry Kissinger's Bicentennial Essay, that the U.S. Secretary of State regards the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo as a "triumph of diplomacy." Force of arms, not diplomacy, was the means by which the U.S. stripped Mexico of half of its national territory. Today the U.S.'s regional hegemony depends on ownership of advanced technology, "credit diplomacy," preferential tariffs, import quotas, trade embargoes, and the politics of profit repatriation...
...effectively undermined by the great western movement of Americans and the free communities they quickly founded. But the consolidation of their pioneering achievements was made possible by those negotiations and by subsequent diplomatic successes. The annexation of Florida, the Oregon boundary settlement with Great Britain, the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the Gadsden Purchase, the purchase of Alaska from Russia−all were triumphs of diplomacy during decades when most citizens believed America did not have, or need, a foreign policy...
Carlos A. Hidalgo...
...hoping that el Caudillo was strong enough to withstand surgery, they had him wheeled from his bedroom to the infirmary of his personal guard's barracks, 200 yards from the palace, for an attempt to halt the massive internal hemorrhaging. In a three-hour operation, Dr. Manuel Hidalgo Huerta, an old friend, removed one bleeding ulcer from the wall of Franco's stomach and tied a large gastric artery that carries blood to the stomach wall. Franco was also given two gallons of blood, more than replacing his entire blood volume...
Pertinax Surly (John Carito) sees through the alchemist but doesn't manage to outsmart him. Carito is particularly good when dressed up as a Spanish hidalgo pretending not to understand Subtle when he tells him, "You are a scurvy whoreson dog," to which he replied. "Gracias, gracias." Tribulation (Walter Matherly) and Ananias (Sam Guckenheimer) are two whacked-out sectaries from the most extreme of the Protestant lunatic frings; Kastrll (Lee Silverman) is suitably boorish but sometimes so much so that you can't understand what he's saying. Dame Pliant (Andrea Stein) is a dumb blonde who turns...