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...subsequent disillusionment of that decade. Cortázar—a literary heavyweight in Latin America, associated with the prolific Boom period of the 60s and 70s—wrote “Hopscotch” in 1963, after his move to France to escape dictator Juan Domingo Per??n, and its Left Bank influences are clear. In stunningly tactile prose, the novel follows pseudo-autobiographical protagonist Horacio Oliveira, also an Argentinean expatriate, through his nights of jazz, cigarette smoke, and intellectual conversation in Paris with a group of friends dubbed the “Serpent Club...
...very Fidelista hard-liners whose power Ral has worked to undermine in the past year and a half. Not so long ago, it seemed the next generation of Cuban leaders would be an ideological cohort fiercely loyal to Fidel, known as los Taliban and led by Foreign Minister Felipe Per??z Roque, 42. But since Ral took over as interim President, the likes of Per??z have seen their power checked while pragmatists like Vice President Carlos Lage, 56, who share Ral's less dogmatic economic-policy vision, have ascended. Also rising are younger army generals and other Raulistas like...
...Argentina's glamorous and vivacious First Lady and is all but certain to be its next President. Feel free to make the inevitable comparison to the country's 20th century heroine, because Fernàndez, 54, enjoys being called the "new Evita." She certainly shares some of Eva Per??n's passion and combativeness. But in truth, she more resembles a contemporary headliner: Hillary Clinton. Fernàndez, too, married her law-school sweetheart and helped him become the Governor of a small southern province and then President. And like her U.S. counterpart, Fernàndez is a senator...
...example, in Argentina Juan Domingo Per??n enfranchised millions, but could not complain when a coup deposed him: He had led one himself less than a decade before. The country subsequently suffered six “constitutional interruptions” in less than a century...
JUAN AND EVITA PERON Argentine President Per??n named his second wife Eva the nation's Spiritual Leader before she died in 1952. When he became President for a second time in 1973, he chose third wife Isabel...