Word: trabajo
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...will be balanced, even when it comes to Chávez's revolutionary government. And while Telesur plans a mix of news, documentaries, sports, Latin movies and dance-music shows like Sones y Pasiones (Sounds and Passions), others doubt its viability, given the Soviet-sounding titles of programs like Trabajo y Tierra (Work and Land). But in its first year, Telesur, which will be seen on local and cable stations from Mexico to Argentina as well as Miami, expects to bring in $10 million from commercial sponsors. And if oil prices stay at record levels, Chávez can afford to keep...
...will not be easy for Martinez de Hoz to achieve this without creating massive unemployment and real recession. If that sort of tailspin came with living standards falling and terrorists still active, workers and their Peronist union bosses might be tempted to try something far less passive than trabajo a tristeza...
...corruption, uplifting the rural sector, and tax and banking reforms, has been opposed by businessmen and conservatives within his own party, the P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), not to mention Mexico's political bureaucracy. The President spends much time traveling round the country on what he calls giras de trabajo (working tours), during which he spends hours listening to the problems of campesinos and calling on the people to support his liberal reforms. He has also traveled more widely abroad than his predecessors, having visited 21 countries during four years in office...
When he looked at the exposed leg, a broad grin crept over his clean-shaven face. Oblivious of the girl's tortured movements, he beckoned his assistant over to the bed. "Mira," he said, and began to laugh. "El trabajo del brujo." The work of the witch. He pointed to the streaks of tobacco dye that covered the bruises on the girl's leg. An expert in herbal medicine in the girl's village had applied the tobacco in line with an ancient tradition that prescribes herbal cures for injuries of all kinds. The girl, her leg still swollen with...
...Trabajo. Fidel Castro still rails at the U.S. in his speeches. But Cuba's Communists do not seriously fear a U.S. invasion. President Kennedy, in fact, has promised them that the U.S. will not invade. Nor do they worry much about an internal uprising; after four years of power, they feel secure behind their 50,000-man army and 250,000-man militia. The slogan "Patria o Muerte [fatherland or death]" was on every wall 17 months ago; today the dinning words are Al Trabajo, meaning "to work...