Word: velez
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...twelfth nation to establish formal relations. If there was any impatience in the U.S. embassy with Castillo Armas' slow start, the recognition covered it well. But some of the President's loyal press was turning cautiously critical. "The country's new leaders," wrote Alvaro Contreras Velez, a strong supporter of Castillo Armas, "must provide a healthy substitute for the pernicious doctrine sown in many minds by the Reds. They must tell us what they offer the people in place of Communism, whose fruits lie fallen on the ground, but whose roots are not yet pulled...
Coconut Planter Rufino Flores Velez was riding along a Mexican trail near the isolated village of Rio Grande in the southwest corner of Oaxaca state. When his horse kicked the corner of a stone sticking out of the dust, he hopped off, investigated, and gathered a gang of peasants to dig up the stone. It weighed about three tons, but at last the peasants managed to turn it over. The underside was covered with elaborate carvings that looked to non-archeological eyes like a man and woman embracing...
...Pili" Flamenco (Pedro Jimenez, cantador; Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, guitars; Esoteric). Cantador Jimenez (El Pili) shouts his uninhibited incantations while the guitars, torrid and teasing by turns, strum their gypsy rhythms. Full of authentic Andalusian excitement...
...officers had spun a yarn of a highly organized air force plot to do away with Perón. Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave a masterly performance as leader of the plot. Laboristas took the bait...
October 12 was set as the day of the coup, and General Velez ordered a final meeting at headquarters for the night of Sept. 23. That afternoon Reyes got a tipoff, frantically called an emergency meeting at home to warn his associates. But there was a double double-cross and the police sprang the trap then & there. The name of John Griffiths, onetime U.S. embassy worker, was tossed in to give the conspiracy some foreign color. He had once been friendly with Reyes...