Word: montejo
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...Esteban Montejo's autobiography is no more and no less than that. Shaped from notes and tape recordings, the recollections of this 107-year-old Cuban, now living in an old soldiers' home outside Havana, have all the rough charm of folk art. Such praise is not patronizing. Behind Montejo's colorful directness is a robust self-consciousness and dignity that should be the envy of his more sophisticated readers. The key to Montejo's attitude toward the ups and downs of his life is his phrase, "This is not sad because it is true...
...Harvester Co. and other U.S. makers of binder twine used war surpluses to force henequen prices down from 20? to 2? a Ib. The millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel. One of the Gutierrez scions ran a gas station, the other a bakery. Pepe Castro shined shoes in the Plaza de Armas...
...families woke up to the fact that they still had their machinery, and could charge as much for disfibering agave spikes as they could get. By war's end, the number of factories had grown from 11 to 100. In the mansions on the Paseo de Montejo it was like old times...