Word: salvador
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...shouted. And now, at a time when Catalonia has achieved an unprecedented degree of autonomy, thanks to new statues negotiated with the Zapatero government, the Barça continues to symbolize the region's aspirations. "All societies need spaces where they can express their identity," says anthropologist Jordi Josep Salvador, who specializes in the political meanings of soccer in Spain. "That's what Barça is. Its symbols have merged with the symbols of Catalan identity...
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Back in Austria, he abandoned plans to earn a doctorate, joined Findus and was soon posted to Chile. President Salvador Allende was then in power trying to implement his "Chilean road to socialism," and Brabeck recalls spending much of his time trying to dissuade government officials from nationalizing milk production. He also had to deal with militant labor officials on the factory floor who could bring operations to a standstill...
...salvador army led an attack on a cooperative farm that was run by natives and deemed subversive by rich landowners. One of countless atrocities committed during the country's 1980-92 civil war, it would have gone unnoticed if not for the protests of Adrian Esquino Lisco, spiritual chief of El Salvador's tiny indigenous community. As a government investigation stalled and dissolved, Lisco's outcry over the massacre--in which soldiers tied the hands of more than 70 farmworkers and shot each in the head--made international news. Lisco later worked with U.S. Congressmen to help bring about...
...displayed at the Met last winter—being put up in the summer, simply because it demands so much more analysis than a casual museum-goer is willing to give. Rather, summer exhibitions feel like summer movies, complete with high-budget special effects (for example, Salvador Dalí, at London’s Tate Modern), easily digested storylines (Hopper, at the MFA), and big-name stars (Cezanne and Picasso, at the Musée d’Orsay). Granted, you snack on a 12-dollar turkey-and-avocado sandwich instead of 4-dollar popcorn, but you enjoy...