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High up in the thin, cold air of the Bolivian Andes, shrewd Mestizo Simón I. Patiño built for himself and his family an empire of tin. It was founded on the peon labor of mountain Indians whose lowly wage offset the high cost of transporting Patiño's ores to world markets. The mines Patiño developed from the original holding he acquired from a debt-ridden Portuguese made him one of the richest men in the world. But last week the manner in which he got his wealth returned, to plague...
...Quezon first bobbed into view in 1909-a small, nervous, sallow man with bushy eyebrows, who had gone to Washington as Resident Commissioner of the newly acquired Philippines. A Spanish-Malay mestizo, born of schoolteaching par ents on the island of Luzon, he had fought in the insurrectionist army against Spain, afterwards against the U. S. invaders. Full of energy, brilliant, brittle, as unpredictable as a hummingbird, he spent seven years reminding the U. S. Government of its promises to set the islands free. When he left Washington he had in his pocket the Jones Act, which did not give...
Maya. Most Mexicans are of Indian descent; either pure-blooded or mixed (mestizo). As Indians, their artists have never felt adequately fathered by the Old Masters of Europe. Between 1910 and 1920, when Rivera and fellow Mexicans quit trying to paint like third-rate Spaniards, they claimed as a vital part of their tradition the Maya Indian culture which flourished before the Spanish conquest. But if Maya sculpture and design became art to modern Mexicans, they remained archeology to most of the rest of the world. Last week the first big U.S. exhibition of Maya relics as objects...
...claimed that he was taking land from the rich and "returning" it to the poor. But last week President Cardenas accurately claimed that he has split up more land than all the Presidents of the past 15 years. Some 24,000,000 acres have been divided among Indian, mestizo farmers by President Cardenas since 1934 while only 20,000,000 acres were distributed in the 15 years preceding...
French-speaking, Negro Haiti with an area of 10,204 sq. mi. has a population (2,550,000) almost twice that of Spanish-speaking, mainly Mestizo Dominican Republic, area 19,332 sq. mi. For years, overcrowded Haitians have been slipping over the border, squatting on Dominican land. Fortnight ago the border villages blazed with fire and the banging of musketry. When the smoke cleared, over 300 were dead on Dominican soil, mostly Haitian squatters, their wives and children. Nervous authorities in both countries feared reprisals...