Word: zamorano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancing in the Churchyard. After that the landlords gave less and less to Padre Zamorano's church, and that led to the incident of the gambling party. Right in the churchyard, the peasants played roulette, held a raffle, drank wine and danced; Padre Zamorano himself pounded the piano and sang. The proceeds, fortunately, were substantial and went to support Catapilco's school, founded by Zamorano...
Later there was the case of assault-the day the priest, armed with a hammer, chased a quack healer out of town. And a case of battery-the day Zamorano beat up a knife-brandishing thug. Worst of all, there was a political scandal...
...seemed to Padre Zamorano that the main problem of his flock was its poverty, which he blamed on the 15?-a-day wages paid by the landlords. "The villagers cannot pray on an empty stomach," he insisted, and he sought a political solution. He persuaded his parishioners not to sell their votes to the landlords and urged them to register. At length his advice caught on. Last March Catapilco's people picked a peasants' candidate to represent the village on the township council. The candidate's name: Padre Zamorano...
Victory at the Polls. Stridently, the landlords appealed to the bishop. "That priest is a social agitator," said Daniel Perez, whose family has held the same land since the Spanish conquest. The bishop took heed. "If you run as a candidate, you will be suspended," he warned the priest. Zamorano-torn between his superior and his backers-decided to run. He won, last month...
...Zamorano is a very good man," the bishop admitted, but his warning was no idle threat. Last week the people of Catapilco held an angry testimonial meeting to back Zamorano; then, even angrier, they staged a one-day protest strike. The governor had to send ten fully armed carabineros to keep order. All protest failed. Padre Zamorano was duly dismissed as parish priest of Catapilco. But he stayed on as the village's elected councilman...