Checkmate

It's so much like chess ... the Queen of the Madres in her white kerchief ... the ambassador king well hidden ... the dozen or so pawns swooped up on 14 May 1976 ... the pair of priests or bishops ... the two Cuban embassy guards, the knights. The embassies offering shelter, like castles.

Then the black ops arrayed against them ... it all seems so predestined, adding them up this way. When Pope Francis meets CFK they're always dressed in white and black, respectively. King vs.. queen.

Jacque is the Spanish term for checkmate. Cf. Jacques Doe, the alias given the unidentified victim in Sumter.