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Cuba-loving Author Rubens carries his story through the U. S. war with Spain, through the U. S. military government of Cuba, and closes with a rhetorical description of the Cuban flag rising slowly over Morro Castle. As in a well-behaved cinema, nothing is supposed to follow the supposedly happy...
Porto Rico is a land of mountains, of palms, and banana trees, of tropical storms and tropical beauty. The moss-grown walls of Morro Castle rise out of a wine dark sea at the entrance to San Juan harbor. Through the harbor mouth, by the great Spanish fort, to the land of romance beyond, the land of ebony-haired Spanish girls with flashing eyes, the land of Ponce de Leon and the Conquistadores, the Vagabond goes until the doors of Sever open again. Or, it may be, for a little longer...
...General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common; etc., etc. (TIME, March 11, et seq.). One night last week Editor Pacheco found himself in a position to write no more. A curtained automobile stopped in front of his home in Cerro (Havana suburb). Editor Pacheco...
...boundary dispute. It provided: 1) Chile to retain Arica and its nitrate fields, Peru to take Tacna with its vineyards; 2) Chile to pay Peru six million dollars; to deliver all government buildings in Tacna to Peru without cost; 3) both nations to erect jointly a monument on the morro of Arica to commemorate the peaceful settlement of the dispute...
...open secret," said Octavio Seigle, fingering a neat butterfly tie, "that opponents of the government who disappear from Havana are taken to the Cabana fortress next to Morro Castle, and fed to the man-eating sharks of the harbor...