Word: tehuana
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...dusk the caravan emerged onto the broad plains of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, where, ever since the days of Heman Cortes, men have talked of digging a Gulf-to-Pacific Canal. Brown families bathed in the tepid streams. At Tequi-sixtlan, brilliantly costumed Tehuana women danced the stately Llorona (The Weeper) to the music of a twelve-foot marimba. The politicos watched, and sipped the milk of green coconuts...
...earthquake-ridden Tehuantepec City, Miguel Aleman made the day's first real speech from the plaza bandstand. Speaking extemporaneously to one of the world's few remaining matriarchies,* he said that Mexico's women were coming into their own. Tehuana women applauded. Tehuana men were busy shooting fireworks and drinking beer...
...Tehuantepec, women outnumber men five to one. They carry on the trade and commerce. The original Tehuana men were almost wiped out by internecine warfare...
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