Word: rufo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disagreement. Privately a stern critic from the start of Castro's helter-skelter reforms, Pazos had joined a loose alliance with three other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero, 35, a civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht Gramma...
...proposal, as leaked from the office of Finance Minister Rufo Lopez Fresquet, was so zany that the Cuban press thought somebody was pulling its leg: anyone mentioned in the Cuban social register or newspaper society pages would have to pay a tax for the honor. The bite would be $1 per mention, plus $1 for each flattering adjective. Titles of nobility would be taxed $100, and photographs $10 per column inch. For collecting the tax, the newspapers would be allowed to keep 25% of the take. Going along with the gag, Prensa Libre used up seven adjectives in describing Minister...
...money and brains-the suave front men who operated their revolution across polished desks in Havana, New York and Caracas, gathering money from rich friends, channeling it to the international arms dealers who ran guns to Castro. Last week some of these men were coming to the surface: Economist Rufo Lopez Fresquet, a main channel for rebel money; Broker Ignacio Mendoza, who hid hot rebels in his rich Havana home; Julio Duarte, secretary of the Cuban Bar Association and a top rebel organizer; "Comandante Diego," a still-unidentified rebel who bossed Havana saboteurs...
...Ghost, sometimes she came and stood at the foot of the bed . . . The tree that fell on John Perry, it cut off his leg . . . The lightning that struck Rufo Bar-cliff, it killed...
...good people, it turns out, are Consuela the medium, kind of heart and willing to make a fast peso; Rufo the metalworker, who dares to be loyal to Juan and brave before the Falange; and Lucia, Juan's flancee, who is the only one Don Antolin can feel affection...