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Peril from Tigers. During the first weeks of his life with the Reds, they made Leriche do chores such as carrying supplies for combat troops, but he had time (and was permitted) to watch the Viet Minh preparations for an assault on Moc-chau. The commanders built crude sand tables, then made their men practice the attack again and again. "Each soldier rehearsed his job 50 times, maybe 100 times. C'est formidable. When they attack they move like machines...
...attacked his job with soldierly ferocity, quick-drying pyroxylin paint and a spray gun. The mural has more force than feeling, but it is clearly in line with Siqueiros' oft-repeated theory that the right, true end of art is propaganda. His subject this time is Cuauhtémoc-the Aztec hero who tried to defend Mexico City against Cortés after the death of Montezuma. One panel shows Cuauhtémoc being tortured by the Spaniards, along with a bleeding woman and a child with its hands chopped off. Morbid? Goodness, no, said Siqueiros, "unless paintings...
...mural's other panel, Cuauhtémoc appears as a conqueror (which he was not), dressed in the armor of the men who beat him and wearing an Aztec crown. "He's a fighting symbol of our national independence," Siqueiros said, "of independence not yet entirely won." Added Siqueiros, who keeps up to date on party literature even when busy with a spray gun: "I see in Cuauhtémoc [a prototype of] Mao Tse-tung of China, Luis Carlos Prestes of Brazil, the leaders of the Viet Minh and the fighters for the nationalization of Iran...
...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...planners were unmoved. While Cuauhtémoc and the 34 heroes sat forlornly at the curbs, the cement mixers ground on. Mexicans began to call their beloved Paseo the "hardened artery...