Word: jefe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mazursky flunked this test in Moon over Parador, for he and Co-Writer Leon Capetanos had a nice idea. An actor named Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss), who has worked up a party- stunt imitation of the mythical Parador's strongman, is working in that country on the day el Jefe dies of a heart attack. Recruited to replace him by the ruling families, who fear a revolution, Jack finds, as others before him have, that playing President is an actor's dream: all entrances and cheering multitudes...
Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo could kick up his boots like a pro. During a 1951 peace meeting on the Haitian border, El Jefe grabbed the daughter of one of his officers and, as a ceremonial band bore down on a merengue beat, danced away the next hour. His countrymen could also call the tune to advantage, however. After Trujillo's 1961 assassination, Dominicans danced for months to The Death of the Goat, an irreverent merengue written to celebrate the general's violent removal...
...million from the U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster for three books. The first volume would include his 1979 speeches to the United Nations and his views on Latin America's debt, the second his thoughts on religion and Marxism, and the third his memoirs. Questions remain, however, about whether el jefe maximo will ever receive his fee. Last November the Treasury Department issued a license to Simon & Schuster allowing it to sign a contract with Castro as long as all payments go to a blocked account in the U.S., meaning the money cannot be transferred to any other country...
When Veteran Photographer Eddie Adams, 50, was offered a chance to accompany Parade Magazine Reporter Tad Szulc, 57, to Cuba for an exclusive interview with President Fidel Castro, 57, he eagerly accepted. But "el jefe máximo" kept the pair waiting in their hotel for two weeks, and they finally flew back to New York, though not before Adams had angrily given every Cuban official he could find a good piece of his mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing...
Notably absent on this occasion was the kind of flamboyant improvisational rhetoric that Castro introduced to the world a quarter-century ago. The graying revolutionary jefe read from a prepared text for a mere 90 minutes-a brief span compared with the five-and six-hour Castro stemwinders of the past. In a detailed litany of the accomplishments of his Communist regime, Castro described Cuba's socialist state as "the most advanced political and social system known in the history of mankind...