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Working for the Compania Minera de Oruro in the tin-mining camp of Colquiri, one early morning in 1948, tin miners led by Juan Lechin invaded our homes and took us to union headquarters with shouts of "Que mueren los gringos...
...Juan Lechin, now Vice President, used these tactics a long time ago; and having armed tin miners on his side is a grave threat to the Bolivian government, which has tried hard to run the mines economically...
Thus ended ten days of imprisonment in the dingy tin miners' union hall at Siglo, Veinte, 135 miles from the Bolivian capital of La Paz. Until the end, there was no certainty that the men - pawns in a power struggle between Bolivia's moderate President Victor Paz Estenssoro and its leftist Vice President Juan Lechin - would get out alive. Even after Lechin backed down, many of the rebellious miners whom he leads seemed in a mood to set off a civil war in the bleak Andean nation. They demanded that Lechin appear personally before them to explain...
...Montevideo in 1933, three years before Lorca was gunned down in the Spanish Civil War. In 1962, after a month in Spain, Frasconi made 16 Picasso-like lithographs titled Oda a Lorca, in which the poet is depicted as a matador, Franco as a hairy-legged bull with tin horns, and Spain as a land of graves over which praying figures whirl by on the backs of monsters, symbolizing "mysticism and dogma in a wild, hysterical...
...Tin-Horn Bull. A Uruguayan by birth, Frasconi worked as an illustrator and political cartoonist until he could get his "magic paper"-a scholarship to the Art Students League that brought him to the U.S. in 1945. Over the years after that, his clean-lined, brightly colored prints of California lettuce pickers and Fulton Market fish packers, plus his portraits of such literary figures as Bertolt Brecht and Sean O'Casey, won him a reputation as a wizard of the woodcut...