Word: hortensia
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Inevitably, you run into Hortensia. Although she has been in the town only eight days, her presence is well-established. She springs forward in her long black combat boots when she sees you and grasps you by the arm. "Where have you been? You have not come to visit us," she reproaches. She guides you to where the men are drinking in the late afternoon sun. Don Calixto toasts your arrival...
...Hortensia invites you to her room. She rummages through the clothes that hang from a hook in the center of the room, finds David's uniform, and takes his medals from the pockets, proudly holding them up for you. He fought in the Revolution under Zapata, Villa, and Carranza--all three--"for the experience. He wanted to try out everything." And he has first-hand accounts that contradict the history books. But David does not have papers to prove that he is a veteran of the Revolution, and so the government will not grant him a pension. "People give...
...worked in California, in...Idaho for seven years." David was a migrant worker during World War II. He remembers the need for labor and idealizes the working conditions in the United States. He wants to go back and work. He remembers some broken English. Hortensia will not let him: "It is better that we are here; I cannot learn English--they beat me in school...
Allende immediately recognized that he faced the worst crisis of his stormy three-year presidency. An hour before the military's ultimatum, he telephoned his wife Hortensia at their villa. "I'm calling from La Moneda," he told her. "The situation has become very grave. The navy has revolted and I am going to stay here." Allende was right. Even before the junta's troops surrounded the palace, the navy had announced that it had taken over and sealed off the port city of Valparaiso, 75 miles away. Marines from Valparaiso were advancing on the capital...
...Haven't Much Strength." The afternoon of dignified salutations wore on. At the tomb of Panamanian President José Antonio Remón, who was assassinated 19 months ago, President Eisenhower laid a wreath, paused to chat with Remón sister, Carmen Hortensia Remón, who asked about his health. Ike's reply quickly buzzed through the press corps in three different languages. "I am feeling fairly well," he said. "I haven't much strength, but I keep going...