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...French, they ordered them to depart, but while the colonists elbowed each other, the Spanish argued that the Papal Line of Demarcation of 1492 had awarded the whole region to them. The French sold out to Spain for £24,000, and Port Louis was renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring London's most talented polemicist, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson obliged with a pamphlet calling the Falklands "an island...
Fidel Castro confiscated Soledad in 1960 and Claflin spent the next years involved in various activities, including his large collection of American Indian artifacts...
After leaving his job as Harvard treasurer he became president of the Soledad Sugar Co.. which operated a manufacturing plant and owned 30,000 acres of land in Cuba...
...early thirties, Paz has been identified with the surrealist writers, a school he once described as "a negation of the contemporary world and at the same time an attempt to substitute other values for those of democratic, bourgeois society." His best-known works include El Laberinto de la Soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude), an essay on Mexican character described by Irving Howe as "a central text of our time" and long metaphysical poems like Piedra de sol (Sun Stone) and Blanco...
When it is, Juan Corona, who remains in Soledad prison, will be represented by a new legal team...