Word: trujillos
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...plot, if it can be called that, is harmless enough. One Don Pepe Hernandez, a would-be impresario in the tiny Honduran coastal town of Trujillo, has rented a decrepit nightclub with money from his uncle, the owner of the local Coca-Cola bottling plant. His show, which he calls La Parada de Estrellas, or Parade of Stars, is advertised as featuring "international cabaret stars," who turn out to be four members of his family wearing various transparent disguises. The play consists of one full run-through of Hernandez's show...
Marriage Revealed. Jean-Claude Killy, 30, French superskier whose downhill dashes through the Alps in 1968 resulted in three Olympic gold medals; and Daniele Gaubert, 29, racy French actress (Camille 2000) and former daughter-in-law of the Dominican Republic's late dictator Rafael Trujillo; he for the first time, she for the second; in Archamps, France...
...coup, was released by a Cuban news agency staffer in Buenos Aires. The verse, which describes President Nixon and Junta Leader Augusto Pinochet as "hyenas ravening/ Our history," is a hoax. Apparently Buenos Aires leftists "updated" a Neruda poem from the 1950s, changing the names of Latin American Dictators Trujillo, Somoza and Carias to Nixon, Frei (Allende's predecessor as president) and Pinochet...
Before the performance begins, Señor Don Pepe Hernandez, a third-rate impresario who bills himself as "el compere extraordinario" has advertised in the local press of Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...
...They had little if anything to say about the American coup in Guatemala, the CIA's intervention in Iran, its role in the creation of Diem, or the American support of Trujillo; but they regarded communist "colonialism" with horror. The plight of the communist satellites wrung their hearts; that of South Korea and South Vietnam left them unmoved. They denounced racism in the Soviet Union while ignoring it in South Africa and the United States until it was no longer possible to ignore it.... It was possible that they had so completely assimilated the official point of view that they...