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...Pepe" Figueres-sometimes called El Enano (the dwarf) because he stands only 5 ft. 3 in.-is the grand old man of Latin America's democratic left. In the small band of democratic reformers (including Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt. the Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Peru's Raul Haya de la Torre) who only recently seemed to be Latin America's best hope for nonviolent change, he remains one of the few effective survivors...
Divided Road. A onetime M.I.T. student whose heroes range from Bolivar and Lincoln to Don Quixote, Don Pepe has led his country twice before. In 1948, when the Costa Rican army and Communist-led commandos sought to prevent a newly elected government from assuming power, Don Pepe routed them with a ragtag 700-man army. He took control at the head of a junta, and in the next 18 months he dissolved the army, expanded social-welfare programs, gave women the vote and nationalized the banks. Then, by prior agreement, he stepped aside in favor of the man whose election...
...outsiders find rather cloying. Temp is "Ole Simon," as in Simon Legree; Nancy is "Den Mother"; Joe Raff is "Tío Pepe"); Judy is "Kid Chocolate"; and Bone, naturally, is "Billy Bones." Home is headquarters, and headquarters is home: Villa Fielding, a $400,000 estate in the beach resort of Formentor, a 1½-hour drive across Majorca from Palma, the Spanish island's capital. The staff spends anywhere from two to seven months a year on the road, inspecting new hotels and restaurants, revisiting those already mentioned in the guide. When a trip is in the offing, Villa Fielding becomes...
...blame any body. But life has gone from here. Within a few years, this village will be empty. The face of Jose Flores Gomez is creased from 60 years of weather and laughter and, when he speaks, his dark eyes dance as though amused. Don Pepe, as friends call him, is not amused when he ponders the past and the future of his home, the Andalusian coastal village of Palomares. Last week, as he and his fellow villagers celebrated the feast day of their patron, St. Antony the Abbot, they also marked the third anniversary of the day when...
...court has no net and its lines are improperly painted, but that hardly matters. "Nobody here has ever played tennis," says Don Pepe Flores, a hint of amusement in his eyes. "We've never even seen anyone playing tennis...