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...Matanzas, rebels grabbed one Juliana Muñoz Garcia, 42, the mother of two sons. The charge: that for $15 a week she had been a Batista informer, betraying at least two teen-age rebels to killer cops. When she screamed that she had only pointed out the house where the boys lived, the rebels hissed "Chivata!" (little goat that bleats, i.e., stool pigeon). Terrified, she awaited trial...
...Concessions. Wandering through Washington, Havana, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Manhattan, Betancourt had ten years to think over where he had gone wrong. He conversed long and learnedly with men like himself, e.g., Puerto Rico's Luis Mu...
...arid Sonora state, just south of the U.S. border, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz stood in the hot sun one day last week, read aloud a decree that expropriated a huge chunk of U.S. -owned property - the 400,000-acre Cananea Ranch. As thousands of peasants, swirling on the dry. sandy earth, shouted "Sonora for the Sonorans!". he raised the Mexican flag over the last of the great Mexican latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared...
...post-Nixon" Latin American emphasis and your excellent Muñoz Marin cover story [June 23]: many Americans, enchanted by the cultures of Spain or France, ignore or even deride an almost identical culture to their south. To a large segment of Americans, Mexico and the remainder of Latin America is represented by dives or semiliterate braceros. This is like judging the U.S. by Coney Island or Arkansas hillbillies. Unless we make an effort to understand and appreciate the rich, proud and nonmaterialistic culture of our southern neighbors we shall have lost a major battle of the cold...
...think TIME did an uncommonly good job on my friend, Luis Muñoz Marin...