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John Singer Sargent: Studies for "El Jaleo" and "The Spanish Dancer...
Jaleo is the Spanish word for ruckus or uproar. In 1886, John Singer Sargent masterfully captured the uproar of the flamenco dance in his well-known work "El Jaleo...
...said the schools have "paid the least amount of attention" to Latino issues, such as extra help, councilling and the number of fluent Spanish-speaking teachers in the classrooms...
...father, Vicente, was one of the early underground organizers of an agrarian trade union called the Peasant Unity Committee. His 16-year-old son was seized by security troops, flayed and publicly burned. In January 1980, when Vicente and some of his comrades occupied the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City to call attention to their grievances, police stormed the building. The embassy caught fire, and the demonstrators burned to death...
...weapon is money, not missiles. A self-made millionaire reportedly worth $10 million, he built his fortune as a young partner in the local contracting firm of Iglesias y Torres, then bought out the company and Anglicized the name to Church & Tower. He lives behind high walls in a Spanish-style mansion in south Miami and drives a bulletproof blue Mercedes. He is sentimental enough to have planted six royal palms in his backyard, one for each of Cuba's provinces. "I am more Cuban than American," he says. "I prefer eating plantains to American food...