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Just after noon one day last week, Roberto, as his teammates called him, rode his horse up the steep path to tiny (pop. 150) San Pedro del Alto. Ten yards behind followed his Mexican assistant, Raul Sanchez. About 40 yards farther back rode three soldiers (the only armed men in the party) and a guide. Topping the rise, Roberto rode slowly up to the church on the sunbaked, cactus-hedged plaza. As he was about to dismount, he suddenly cried to Sanchez: "Get out quick, go back...
From behind church and cactus rushed 600 screaming men & women armed with clubs and stones. They surrounded the riders, grabbed the soldiers' rifles. Sanchez was beaten into unconsciousness; Proctor fought his way out and dashed towards a wooded area with a mob at his heels. The soldiers escaped to give the alarm...
Three hours later, Sanchez was carried into Toluca hospital. Government police fanned out over the hills looking for Proctor. Only after getting tough with the farmers were they led to a mountain grave. There they found the battered body of Roberto Proctor. He was the ninth official (and second American) to die at the hands of superstitious Mexican farmers fearful that anti-aftosa teams came to do them harm instead of good...
...corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent men in the government will die, and two great plagues will sweep the world." A couple of women hastily crossed themselves...
Lorca's Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, translated in this volume, has no equal among modern elegies for directness in the vision of death and for symphonic magnificence of form. Mejias was a torero, an Andalusian and friend of Lorca's, who died after a goring...