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Selected Works of Manuel Maples Arce

Paroxismo On the way to other dreams, we went out in the afternoon; a strange adventure spoiled us in the bliss of the flesh, and the heart fluctuates between it and the desolation of the journey. In the agglomeration of the platforms the sobs broke suddenly; later, all night under my dreams, I listen to their lamentations and their prayers. The train is a blast of iron that hits the scene and moves everything. I hold her memory to the depths of ecstasy, and the distant colors of her eyes beat on my chest . Today we will pass the autumn together and the meadows will be yellow. I shudder for her! Uninhabited horizons of absence! Tomorrow will be all cloudy with her tears and the life that comes is weak as a breath. Prisma I am a dead center in the middle of the hour, equidistant from the shipwrecked cry of a star. A handlebar park snaps into the shadow, and the ropeless moon oppresses me in the stained glass windows. Golden daisies leafless in the wind. The insurrectionary city of illum

Does Mexico Need a Fidel Castro? - Albert Weisbord

     What can the Indian or mestizo (part Indian) house-maid buy with an income of 25 cents to 40 cents a day? A pound box of chocolates a  Woolworth’s that sells for $2.00? Or a 10 cent bar of American candy selling for 25 cents? There are hotels in Mexico City advertising rooms and meals for $100.00 a day, maybe she could work for a year and spend a day at the President or Conrad Hilton Hotel. That is, provided she could get away from work, because for the 25 cents to 40 cents a day she must work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week!             Now if she will not work the 16 hours, others must. For as the advertisement in English says: “On the lake shore directly below Chula Vista is the completely untouched native village of San Antonio de Manglar … ‘Maids available,’ senora? . . si. si.”             The story is the same for the working class as a whole. Unskilled male labor about $20 to $25 a month; skilled union stonecutter, 20 to 25 cents an hour; general factory labor, a dollar a da