Word: nicolasa
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...some places, they already have been. In 1920, when Guatemalan Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera was over thrown, market women joined the mob that lynched several of his Cabinet ministers. In 1954 they staged demonstrations that helped bring down the Communist Arbenz regime. In Nicaragua, one Nicolasa Sacasa leads a strong-armed squad of market women in battles against opponents of the Somoza family. And aspiring politicians, far and wide, pay court to the market woman, hoping that she will pass along a favorable word with the groceries...
...Managua slums rushed mobs of prostitutes. They pressed around the horrified women and girls, slapped them, spat at them. Male relatives came to the rescue, dispersed the screaming trulls. Then, from an official Government auto jumped skinny, blue-eyed Nicolasa Sevilla, owner of a cut-rate brothel. Threatening the older women with a knife, she spluttered filth at the prettier girls...
Tacho having gained his point, the harlotry receded into the slums. But the President invited Nicolasa to the Palace, called her "his very good friend," introduced her to outraged callers. She invaded the Chamber of Deputies, slapped a speaker. Given the run of two pro-Government newspapers, she flooded their columns with signed obscenities vilifying Managua society...
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