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...time being, De la Madrid enjoys the support of the power blocs within the P.R.I., including labor, peasants and the bureaucracy. One important figure to watch is Fidel Velásquez, 82, head of the 3.5 million-member Confederation of Mexican Workers, the country's most powerful union organization. After the February devaluation of the peso, Velásquez won wage increases of 10% to 30% for Mexican workers. As a result, the devaluation did not significantly help the competitiveness of Mexican exports, and inflation moved toward the three-digit range. On the eve of De la Madrid...
...labor force is underemployed, meaning a hand-to-mouth existence of marginal, unskilled, part-time work. In the grimy urban jungle of Netzahualcóyotl, a onetime Mexico City slum that has now become a full-scale city of nearly 3 million, Plumber José Vásquez is one of many who contemplate an increasingly desperate future. Says he: "Life is very hard now. It will get worse. I will defend myself as best...
...creativity of its subject. The volume's 1,587 illustrations (361 in color) provide the fullest look anyone but a diligent art historian will ever have of Picasso's formative period. He was never an apprentice. In his early teens he could do copies of Velásquez and large-scale compositions. The draftsmanship in such works was astonishing, but the sketchbooks reached out for bigger challenges. It is possible in these pages to watch him take each step of a discovery. The emaciated figures of the Blue period take shape slowly, as do the acrobats and harlequins...
...threatened not only by failing health but by the Iranian government's continuing efforts to extradite him for trial. Last week a French attorney representing the Tehran regime flew to Panama with a 450-page demand for the Shah's extradition. According to Juan Materno Vásquez, a former Panamanian Supreme Court Justice who is Iran's counsel in Panama, the law requires the Shah's arrest as soon as the document is filed at the Foreign Ministry. Although the prospect of arrest seemed unlikely, the Panamanian government clearly regarded the ailing monarch...
...lounge lizard whose tiny, enameled visions helped create one of the extreme moments of dandyist revolt and modernist disgust. But today the only interesting thing about Dali is the obsessive grip of his pose. He has convinced a public that could hardly tell a Vermeer from a Velásquez that he is the spiritual heir to both painters. And he has done so, not through art but by the diffusion of small anecdotes. Everything is calculated, literally down to the last hair: even his mustache is lifted from Velásquez's portraits of Philip...