Word: pedro
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...myth from a town near Chamula, which explains how a bull was present when the Christ Child was born and with its breath and body heat kept the child from dying from the cold. Wilson adapts this myth for the tale of his own hero's nativity. The newborn Pedro is lying in his mother's arms, when his father's bull breaks out of its pen and, as in the earlier myth, keeps the pair alive. Later Cuscat's followers will believe that the bull must have been his soul come to save...
Carter Wilson's A Green Tree and a Dry Tree is, not surprisingly, as much a work about the sources of fiction as a work of fiction. Like any novel worth reading more than once, it has more than one story to tell. First, it is a portrait of Pedro Diaz Cuscat, a Tzotzil Indian who, though educated by white Dominicans, became a visionary and rebel who led his people against the priests and soldiers of their white masters, in the 1870 rebellion known to Mexican historians as "The Chiapas War of the Castes." But in recounting Cuscat's story...
...Pedro Beltrán is one of Peru's few enlightened aristocrats. As Prime Minister from 1959 to 1961, he brought the country back from the brink of economic collapse with a hard-nosed policy of "austerity within the framework of a free economy." For the past 22 years, Beltran, now 75, has also used his sober, middle-of-the-road La Prensa in Lima to protest both social injustice from the far right and suppression of freedoms from the left. His targets have included the leftist military regime that came to power in 1968. Though Beltr...
...Pontiff. Lately, however, some of the most outspoken attacks on Pope Paul VI from within the church have come from Jesuits-attacks that their superior general now wants stopped. In a letter to the world's 31,860 Jesuits, made public last week, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe reminded them of their obligation to foster "love and respect for the person of the Holy Father." Pope Paul's public image has suffered "great damage," said Arrupe; "I felt deeply that some of us are partly responsible for this damage." Arrupe, who is known to be close...
Because of Hurricane Laura, Finch's plane was diverted from Tegucigalpa, the capital, to San Pedro Sula. No matter. Honduran President RamÓn Ernesto Cruz, accompanied by his entire Cabinet and several cases of vintage champagne, hurried to Honduras' second city to meet Finch there. During a two-hour layover, the reason for all the hospitality became clear. Finch and Cruz signed an agreement under which Washington will cede to Honduras two Caribbean islands that have been U.S. possessions for more than a century...