Word: unidos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patriotic Front now includes the leftist Pueblo Unido or United People's Movement (students, progressive professionals and trade unions), a respected group of national leaders called Los Doce ("The Twelve"), and, most importantly, the Sandinista Front (FSLN), which spearheaded the opposition movement from the beginning. The Twelve includes the famous Jesuit priest Ernesto Cardenal, and used to include the popular editor of the opposiition newspaper La Prensa, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro. Chamorro was gunned down on his way to work in January 1978, and his assassination touched a spree of rioting and burning of buildings in the capital city of Managua...
...alive, and characters that are only technically alive make for a fairly dead play. Tania does have moments of true vivacity, however, and these moments usually come--not surprisingly--when the cast is acting as a collective entity. When they sing "Que linda es Cuba" or chant "El pueblo--unido--jamas sera vencido" with what looks like genuine revolutionary fervor, they manage to capture some of the warm communal feeling that you might experience at a revolutionary summer camp, or, more likely, at a demonstration. But as this production of Tania proves, demonstrations are more fun to participate in than...
...investigative reporting policy, an Independent editor discovers that Stephen S.J. Hall's third name is Jose, and that Hall is still working, two months after Bok laid off all people with Spanish surnames. Hall agrees to go quietly. "If Roberto Ungar counts, so do I," he says. "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido...