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...roof in Caracas' eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera Páez broadcast that the junta had "crushed...
...will there really be elections? Venezuelans answer: yes, there will be, because the junta has committed itself to elections and fears the popular reaction to further delay. However, Pérez Jiménez (the junta's Strong Man) is determined to become President, so the elections will have to be in his favor. And there is always a good chance that an A.D. revolution will beat him to the punch...
...rez & Rebellion. Jose Vega began his career as a Roman Catholic priest. But in 1943, when he decided to marry, he had to leave the Roman clergy. Then one day in Mexico City he came upon the Mexican Catholic Cathedral of San Jose de Gracia. There, he learned how he could enter the priesthood again without renouncing his wife...
...Mexican Catholic Church, a minority sect with only about 40 congregations and 2,600 communicants in all Mexico, dates back to the days when President Benito Juárez ordered the expropriation of Roman Catholic Church lands after the Revolution of 1857. The great majority of priests remained loyal to Rome. But 18 pro-Juárez priests struck out on their own, formed a new church. Concerned about their lack of bishops and apostolic succession, the Mexicans acquired an Episcopal bishop, later became a missionary district of the U.S. Episcopal Church...
Though mambo has a number of self-styled kings & queens (one of whom, Mexico's flame-haired Maria Antonieta Pons, was already pulling them into a midtown New York nightclub last week), Pérez Prado is its emperor. Discussing his creation, Pérez Prado explains: "I am a collector of cries and noises, elemental ones like seagulls on the shore, winds through the trees, men at work in a foundry. Mambo is a movement back to nature, by means of rhythms based on such cries and noises, and on simple joys...