Word: rosario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pigherd in place. When a visitor to her office greeted her with the standard postrevolutionary salute, "Good morning, comrade," she fired back, "Don't you dare call me that. That is a word they use." If her secretary fouls up, Violeta joshingly threatens her with the fate that befell Rosario Murillo, who for eleven years was Pedro Joaquin Chamorro's executive assistant: she married Daniel Ortega...
...crowd began to gather silently last Monday afternoon on the streets adjoining the Boerio Supermarket in Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. The tin-roofed grocery store had served its middle-class neighborhood for years, so manager Luis Nicastro recognized many of the well-dressed people outside the store as his regular customers. Some of the others were toothless, hungry folk in tattered clothes, who came from nearby shantytowns. By 2 p.m., a mob of more than 500 filled the parking lot. "I thought of closing the doors," Nicastro says. "But what good would it do? With all this glass...
After years of tottering on the brink of economic crisis, Argentina started sliding into chaos last week. In food riots that erupted in Rosario, Cordoba, Buenos Aires and other major cities, more than 2,000 people were arrested and at least 15 killed. The primary trigger: hyperinflationary price increases that have left even middle-class citizens unable to afford food and other necessities. Inflation for the month of May reached 75%, and is accelerating at a pace that would amount to more than 80,000% for the year. Said David Feldman, news director of Radio Rosario: "It's not just...
...upheaval began two weeks ago, with isolated outbreaks of looting in several provincial capitals. Widespread food riots broke out in Rosario (pop. 957,000) early last week, after lame-duck President Raul Alfonsin announced his fourth emergency economic plan of the year. Roving crowds, described by police as a mixture of the hungry, the criminal and the opportunistic, overwhelmed poorly prepared local police. Stores not gutted by looters closed their doors, creating widespread food shortages. The unrest then spread to the volatile working-class suburbs of Buenos Aires...
...would never negotiate with the contras, whom they refer to as U.S. puppets. After Ortega announced the talks, La Prensa's headline read SANDINISTAS SURRENDER. That theme was echoed in the streets and at the markets. "We have been going backward ever since the Sandinistas came to power," said Rosario Arroliga Quintanilla as she shooed flies from the filets of pork displayed at * her small stand at Managua's Oriental market. "Now they are surrendering everything they have always said they would never surrender...