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...President Sarmiento himself described Uruguay's General Jose Fructuoso Rivera; "[He] began [by] making war upon the government as an outlaw; afterwards he waged war upon the outlaws as a government officer; next upon the King [of Portugal] as a patriot; and later upon the patriots as a peasant; upon the Argentines as a Brazilian chieftain; and upon the Brazilians as an Argentine general; upon [Outlaw] Lavalleja as President; upon President Oribe as a proscribed chieftain; and finally upon [Oribe's] ally as a general of Uruguay...
...Colombia's Poet-Novelist José Eustasio Rivera on the jungle: "No cooing nightingales here, no Versaillian gardens or sentimental vistas! Instead the croaking of dropsical frogs ... the aphrodisiac parasite that covers the ground with dead insects, the disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree to palm in long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere...
Mexico's famed muralist Diego Rivera, who recently decorated the walls of Mexico City's swank Ciro's nightclub with luscious, careless, postcardish nudes, stayed away from the Picasso opening. But he had an anti-Picasso blast ready for the first reporter who came his way. Roared he: "The Society's role is clear: to serve those trying to preserve European cultural . . . domination. . . . Behind this show are dealers. . . . This is proved by the fact that [the Society's] activities were begun with a non-American artist of overwhelming prestige...
...dictator. The San Carlos Academy of Art, near Posada's workshop, was teaching a decadent, imported style to young artists. Posada ignored the Academy, attacked the Diaz regime with vitriolic cartoons. Among his admirers were today's top-ranking Mexican artists, José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, young students of the time whose work was strongly influenced by his. (Orozco: "Posada is the equal of the greatest artists. . . ." Rivera: "As great as Goya...
Dilemma and End? One of Franco's several mistakes during his rebellion was not military but political. Franco apparently reasoned that one reason for the failure of Primo de Rivera's earlier military dictatorship was that the government lacked any real popular basis. To cure that, while the war was still in progress he adopted the Falange Party, approved by Hitler and Mussolini...