Word: obreg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans who fought from Obregón's armored trains-they call for Adelita...
...prejudiced, but I think that he and his wife, Angélica are two of the warmest, most honest, interesting people I have met. I remember a Sunday afternoon in Cuernavaca when he took over a Mariachi band and gave us a concert of the lusty songs of Obregón's armies; an evening in the California bar when he hunched forward over a café table and practically mesmerized Orozco into sponsoring an exhibit of young Mexican artists; a night in my apartment where he kept a roomful of people silent until four-thirty in the morning...
...jailed because of his politics, not his art. Along with about a thousand other schoolboys, Siqueiros made his way northward in 1913 to join General Obregón's revolutionary forces in Sonora. The children were organized into a grim "Mama's Brigade" and grew up during six years of bloody campaigning. Siqueiros was wounded, and promoted to the rank of captain. When the war was over, and his side victorious, he was sent to Paris as Mexican military attach...
Agustín's son Gustavo went off with Villa's army. "I could never look into Villa's eyes," Gustavo recalls. "They were like tiger's eyes." Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press...
...week ground on. He visited the Bellas Artes palace, presented lettered gold rings to graduates in mechanical and electrical engineering, set the hearts of half the contractors in Mexico City aflutter by declaring that he would disclose the names of successful bidders on the Obregón dam in Sonora this week. Then he left town for Cuernavaca...