Word: negrin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trotskyites rose up in Barcelona but were crushed after a desperate struggle. The government blamed the Trotskyites leaders and dupes who engaged in "conscious lying, conscious provocation conscious support for Fascism." The Comintern engineered a switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
Speaking before a Science Center crowd of 200 people, Negrin showed several hundred slides and played authentic Huichol ritual music...
...thousand Huicholes live in the inaccessible Sierra Madres of Mexico, Negrin said, adding that they are the cultural bridge between the Aztecs and the Hopi Indians. Living in a cold, temperate, impassable climate, the Huicholes are "a shamanic culture of a very complex nature," he said...
...Huichol culture is extremely diverse and it is very difficult to generalize about them" Negrin said, adding "They are not interested in revealing themselves to the outside world...
...Huicholes are most famous for their are which has been displayed in museums across the country. Jose Benitez Sanchez, a Huichol artist, "is the first window into the Huichol world," Negrin said, adding "when I first saw his works. I knew there was something much more powerful behind the art itself--that's what really interests...