TWENTY-THREE … that’s TWENTY-THREE sizable earth tremors (including a biggie at 6.8 or so) rolled through Chile while the country was inaugurating a new president. The election of conservative Sebastían Piñera was expected to shake things up somewhat, but that was thought to be a metaphor.
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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
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That caption is spot on. Lugo looks so wonderfully awestruck in this and other photos from that day.
I bet Uribe thought the gates of hell were opening for him.
The Doctor looks like he smoked a spliff beforehand. “Oh wow, earthquake… Cool, man!”
(Aside: Anybody know about Ross’s El Monstruo? I just ordered it from the library.)