Eduardo Galeano - The Memory of Fire Trilogy - Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

Rockefeller, John D., 25

Rodó, José Enrique, 4

Roldós, Jaime, 260

Romão Baptista, Cicero, 63

Romero, Arnulfo, 243, 256–57

Roosevelt, Franklin D, 104, 112, 118, 119

Roosevelt, Teddy, 8

Rosa, Guimaraes, 171

Rosados family, 29

Rosa Luxemburg Committee, 53

Rosario and Light Mines Company, 19, 247

Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 145

Rosencof, Mauricio, 230

Rossell Arellano, Mariano, 152

Royal Dutch Shell, 94

Rubirosa, Porfirio, 169, 173

Ruby, Jack, 183

Rugama, Leonel, 208–9

Rulfo, Juan, 67–68, 202

Russell, Bertrand, 238

Sacasa, Juan Bautista, 94, 96

Sacco, Nicola, 65

Sagua la Grande, 12

Saint George’s, 263

Saint-Jean, Ibénco, 233

Saint-Laurent, Yves, 197

Saint Pierre, 7

Salcedo, 106

Salgadinho stream, 63

Salta, 228

Salt Lake City, 37

Salvador Allende (town), 277–78

Samedi, Baron, 124

San Albino, 62

San Andrés de Sotavento, 14

San Blas Islands, 225

Sánchez Arcilla, José, 137

the Sandinistas, 182, 235, 244, 247, 249–50, 257

Sandino, Augusto César, 31, 62, 68, 69, 70, 71, 86–88, 92, 94, 96, 196, 249

San Fernando Hill, 140

San Gabriel de Jalisco, 67

San Ignacio, 35

San Jose, Calif., 199

San José, Uruguay, 229

San José de Costa Rica, 136

San José Gratia, 3

San Juan, 188, 199

San Salvador, 93, 97, 103, 104, 150, 182, 206, 220, 221, 243, 256

Sans-Souci, 123

Santa Ana de Yacuma, 253

Santa Clara, 168

Santa Fe, 90

Santamaría, Abel, 148

Santa María volcano, 6

Santa Marta, 73, 254

Santiago de Chile, 209, 210, 212–16, 226, 251, 264, 277

Santiago de Cuba, 147, 148, 164

Santo Domingo, 84–85, 105, 158, 168, 172, 173, 184, 188, 189, 190

Santos, Gabriel dos, 205

Santos, João David dos, 273–74

Santos Dumont, Alberto, 5–6, 11–12

Sao Paulo, 272

Sao Salvador de Bahia, 114, 178

Sarrá, Ernesto and Loló, 159

Schneider, René, 209

Seattle, 147

Shell Oil, 82, 94, 99, 112

Shortridge, Senator, 70

Shultz, George, 263

Sick People (Arguedas), 18

Sicuani, 224

Sierra Maestra, 160, 167

Siles, Hernando, 81

Silva Renard, Roberto, 13

Sinú River, 162

Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 59, 61

Siuna, 247

Smith, Bessie, 65

Smith, Earl, 164–65, 168

Smith, Walter Bedell, 151

Soccer War, 206–7

Socialist Workers’ Party (Yucatán), 58

Solanille, José Julian, 233

Solentiname Archipelago, 236

Somoza, Anastasio Tacho, 94, 96, 97, 119, 152, 158

Somoza, Luis, 158, 173, 211

Somoza, Tachito, 210–12, 244, 245, 247, 248–49, 257–58

Somoza Portocarrero, Anastasio, 249

Sonora, 16

Sosúa, 184

Sotomayor, Rafael, 13

South Georgia Islands, 261

Soviet Union, 61, 70, 135, 172

Spain, 103, 109–10, 118

Spanish American Copper Company, 30

Sparkman, Senator, 175, 176

Stalin, Josef, 113

Standard Oil, 82, 94, 99, 112, 261

Statue of Liberty, 259

Stock Exchange (New York), 80–81, 85

Stockholm, 166, 167, 262

Storni, Alfonsina, 101

Stroessner, Alfredo, 258

Suárez, Roberto, 253

Sucre, 162, 255

Superman (comic strip), 120

Surahammar, 259

Sweden, 260

Sylbaris, Ludger, 7

Tabasco, 73

Tacuba, 91

Tamayo, José Luis, 53–54

Tampico, 56

Tarascan Indians, 227

Taylor, Robert, 146

Tegucigalpa, 206, 235

Téllez, Dora María, 244

Tello (Nicaraguan guerrilla), 237

Tepic, 277

Tequesquitengo, 26

Texaco Oil, 171, 273

Texas, 44

Tierra del Fuego, 7

Tiger of Ixcán, 219–20

Time (magazine), 154

Tlaltizapán, 41, 42

Tlatelolco, 200–201

Tlatelolco prison, 31

Tolima Battalion, 140

Tolstoy, Leo, 22

Toronto, 52

Torreón, 38

Torres, Camilo, 192

Torrijos, Omar, 245, 260

Tortolo, Monseñor, 234

Traven, B., 56

Trotsky, Leon, 113

Trujillo, María de, 159

Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas, 85, 105–6, 107–8, 119, 158–59, 168, 169, 172–73, 184, 186, 187

Trujillo, Ramfis, 105, 119, 173

Trujillo City, 105

Truman, Harry, 126, 149

Tucumán, 128, 129

Tuma River, 267

Túpac Amaru, 55

Turnbull, Walter, 150

Twain, Mark, 188

Ubico, Jorge, 104–5, 149

Ugarteche, Vice Admiral, 196

The Underdogs (Azuela), 41–42

United Fruit Company, 73, 74, 75–76, 105, 136, 148, 149–50, 151, 152, 157

United States of America, 4–5, 7–8, 19, 25, 30, 37–38, 41, 43–44, 45, 50, 52, 64–66, 68, 69, 70–71, 78–81, 85–86, 93, 94, 107, 118–22, 124, 126, 144–47, 149–53, 154, 155, 171–72, 173–74, 175–76, 177, 180, 183, 184, 185, 188, 190, 198–99, 209, 210, 212, 213, 244, 245, 249, 252, 255, 268, 270, 271–72; see also Central Intelligence Agency

U.S. Marines, 8, 19, 30, 62, 68, 69, 71, 86, 94, 119, 172, 190, 263

U.S. National Security Agency, 195

U.S. Rangers, 195

United States Steel Corporation, 4

Universal History of Infamy (Borges), 99

Universal Inter-Oceanic Canal Company, 7

Unkel, Curt, 13

Upar Valley, 135

Urcos, 224

Urrutia, Matilde, 216

Urubamba River, 27

Uruguay, 10, 35, 36, 138, 208, 229–33, 257, 274

Urviola, Ezequiel, 55

Uspantán, 256

Valdivia, Pedro de, 251

Valentino, Rudolph, 64

Valladares, Ramón, 264

Vallejo, César, 118

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 65

Varela, Héctor Benigno, 53, 56

Varela, Obdulio, 138–39

Vargas, Getulio, 102, 108, 155, 273

Vargas, Rafael, 227–28

the Vatican, 270

Velasco Alvarado, Juan, 223, 224–25

Venezuela, 15, 17, 98–99, 152, 227, 241–42, 269

Vera, Martín, 29

Veracruz, 16

Verne, Jules, 5–6

Verrolino, Genaro, 154

Videla, Jorge Rafael, 233, 234, 246

Vietnam War, 198–99

Villa, Pancho, 26–27, 31, 32, 33–34, 35, 37, 38–39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 57, 58, 72

Villa de Jesús María, 179

Villafañe, Javier, 90–91, 262

Villahermosa, 73

Villa-Lobos, Heitor, 66–67

Villamontes-Boyuibe Road, 98

Villarreina, José, 247

Villarroel, Gualberto, 130

Violeta Parra Community, 277

Walsh, Rodolfo, 238

Washington, D.C., 8, 70, 107, 118, 119, 137, 145, 146, 147, 151, 175, 209, 215, 271, 272

Washington Herald (newspaper), 70

Welles, Orson, 120

Wessin y Wessin, General, 184, 189, 190, 191

West Indian Company, 148

West Orange, N.J., 3

West Point, 119, 211

Wheeler, Burton, 70

White, Ellen G., 78

Whitman, Anne, 151

Wilckens, Kurt, 56

Wilson, Charles, 145

Wilson, Henry Lane, 32

Wiwilí cooperative, 96, 97

Workers’ Party of Acapulco, 54

World War II, 120–21, 122, 123, 126

Wroclaw, 135

Yaguajay, 168

Yaqui Indians, 15, 16, 201–2

Yaqui River, 201

Yara River, 163

Ydígoras Fuentes, Miguel, 150

Yoro, 220

Yrigoyen, Hipólito, 53, 82

Yucatan, 15–16, 42, 58–59

Yupanqui, Atahualpa, 129

Yuro Ravine, 196

Zapata, Emiliano, 25–26, 31, 32–33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 47, 48–49, 60, 111, 146, 196

Zapata, Nicolás, 112

Zapotec Indians, 267

Zárate Huilka, Pablo, 8, 9

Zelaya, José Santos, 19, 30

Zeledón, Benjamin, 30–31

Zemurray, Sam, 149, 151

Zimmerman, Isaac, 22

Zinica, 235

Zumpa beach, 276

To Helena Villagra, who helped so much at each stage of the work. Without her, Memory of Fire would not have been possible;