Word: panchito
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Frank Bruni (N.Y. Times) Panchito...
...just after 7 in the evening. Francisco ("Panchito") Grana Garland, 45, boss of Lima's ultraconservative La Prensa, manager of a big pharmaceutical business, had had a long day at the office. "Good night, sonny," he said to the porter, and headed toward his car. A moment later six shots crackled in the street. The porter got out in time to see a sedan turn the corner. Grana lay mortally wounded at the wheel...
Democracy for Defense. However much the U.S. disclaimed any intention of starting an arms race south of the border, many a sincere Latin American democrat was worried by the prospect of more pistols for Panchito. "The intentions, as almost invariably, are sterling. The effects, deplorable," said one thoughtful Latin American last week. "You equip a dictator's army to modern standards and you provide the dictator with an unfailing instrument to perpetuate his tyranny. Do the same in a fledgling Latin American democracy, and you strengthen the already heady military caste...
Carioca and by Panchito, a new bird representing Mexico, so irresolutely developed as a character that he remains in the memory chiefly as a yell with red hair. As a curtain raiser (it would make a good short by itself) there is also a rather cute penguin who travels north to an equatorial island and acquires a suntan. The movie as a whole presents the unhappy spectacle of a brilliant artist screaming his lungs out in an effort to make up for the fact that he has, for the moment, nothing...
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