Word: machado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Male inmates reported being tortured with cattle prods while still dripping from a shower. According to Stark, some prisoners told of extortion demands of up to $40,000 by Mexican lawyers promising to get them released. Before he was transferred from Mexico City's Santa Marta prison, Frank Machado, 29, a Californian who has served five years for smuggling cocaine, said, "I got my nose broken and my eyes split open the first week. That was the cons' way of letting me know I had to pay protection...
There had been fears that the Governor General, Manuel Pimentel Dos Santos, a hardliner, would not accept dismissal by Junta Leader General Antónío Spínola, and would instead declare Mozambique a white independent nation. But Army Commander in Chief General Basto Machado sent a company of paratroopers from the northern combat area to Lourenço Marques as a precaution, and in the end, Dos Santos and his family flew quietly back to Lisbon. In the African possessions of Angola and Portuguese Guinea also, the Governors General peacefully surrendered their jobs. Nonetheless, in all three...
...China Machado, the stylist, dollies in to arrange the folds of a scarf with the care of Michelangelo planning the folds on the Pietá. Sitting immobile for hours at a time has its problems: "My muscles begin to shake after a while. Sometimes the tears start to flow from pain, and we have to airbrush them out of the picture." Such discomfort, of course, cannot be allowed into the photographs...
...Cuban dictator and twice President between 1933 and his overthrow by Fidel Castro in 1959; of a heart attack; in Guadalmina, Spain. Born into the lower classes, Batista joined the army in 1921 and learned its inner workings by transcribing the political trials held in the regime of Gerardo Machado. In 1933 he seized control of the army and the country in a bloodless -but genuine-"sergeants' revolution." But he soon learned the lavish ways of Latin dictators: gambling and prostitution flourished in Havana while government officials built monumental bank accounts from sugar deals with...
Leader of capoeira's transformation into respectability is Manoel Does Reis Machado, now 71, who is called Mestre (Master) Bimba by his devotees. A renowned Salvador rowdy as a youth, Bimba took up capoeira seriously in his late teens and after several prison terms opened an academy to propagate it. In the mid-'30s, after he whipped three rivals on the same afternoon, his reputation began to spread...