Word: petroleos
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...When I walk up the streets of my barrio and there are no police in sight, I pray to Ismaelito or to Petroleo Crudo," says Escalona. "They were malandros, so maybe they can talk to these malandros and tell them not to harm me." She adds: "I also believe in the Virgin Mary and my other saints - it's just that these saints understand the street better...
...streets. (This summer he's had to deploy national guard troops on public buses in the capital to keep them from being hijacked.) Many Venezuelans have responded by entrusting themselves to a group of dead "saints" who had lived delinquent lives. Ismaelito and other santos malandros such as Petroleo Crudo (Crude Oil), El Raton (The Mouse), La Malandra Isabelita, Machera and countless others were petty criminals in the 1960s and '70s. Most, if not all, are said to have died brutally at the hands of the police. But, like sinful ghosts trying to escape purgatory if not hell, they...
...pieces, “Petroleo,” grey-and-beige collaged images of anatomical drawings and sketches of a motorcycle are punctuated by vibrant red flags and red Russian text. The piece, White explains, celebrates the ingenuity of the Cuban people in the face of restrictive political circumstances. Made up of mismatched industrial parts, the motorcycle expresses the Cubans’ ability to manipulate a broken system and turn it into something...
...group’s shows in Hyde Park, Mass. During extensive visits to Cuba as a journalist, Kennedy began to paint and exhibit her work there. Through her interaction with the artists, she learned that they are exceptionally skilled in graphic artwork like that of “Petroleo...
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