Sublime

That’s when Doña Carmen took hold of her chin and looked deep into her green eyes, into her eyes green like green grapes. She rooted around Isora’s eyes like she was mining for groundwater in the mountains. The old woman shrank back. Is somebody jealous of you, miniña? Isora froze. Why, Doña Carmen? What’s wrong? Miniña, you’ve got th’evil eye. For

Tejada knew some of the basics of how to elicit a confession but he had never tried to stop one before. Señorita Fernández’s clear voice rang through the empty street. “You don’t believe me, Sergeant? Viva la República! I’m a member of—” Tejada grabbed her arms and kissed her.

Izzy had the heart of a radical, but she had the experience of a fourteen-year-old living in the suburban Midwest.

Jacobo Árbenz y María Vilanova tuvieron tres hijos, dos mujeres y un hombre: Arabella, nacida en 1940, María Leonora,…

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George and Lorraine Montoya lived on a dead-end dirt lane within easy walking distance of the historic Santa Fe Plaza. On the fringe of a prestigious neighborhood, the lane consisted mostly of two rows of modest homes, all built just before or after World War II. The few houses that had changed hands from Hispanic to Anglo ownership were easy to sp

The PR person for Latinos pro Derechos Humanos, Manolo Gomez, who’d arranged the radio “debate,” was beaten and left for dead in an alley. His car was firebombed. He was also fired from his job as an editor for the Spanish-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine because he’d made public declarations about his homosexuality.

Odilia Palomo de Castillo Armas posaba de muy católica y tenía el apoyo del arzobispo y los curas, que ahora lo controlaban todo. La tal Odilia era una fierecilla. Defendía con uñas y dientes los que creía sus derechos. Martita se rio con la cara pegada contra la almohada de plumas. Había una guerra civil por aquello en Guatemala entre los partidar