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She had concluded that if we had nothing to say to each other, we would also be unable to share a bed, and she seemed surprised that I could spend all day being furious at her and then wish to spend the night making love.
“It makes no difference who we vote for—they always win anyway.”
“We always think things like that only happen elsewhere,” said Miguel, “until they happen to us too.”
Alba wondered where so many Fascists had come from overnight,
They thought the loss of democratic freedoms would be temporary and that it was possible to go without individual or collective rights for a while so long as the regime respected the tenets of free enterprise.
A large part of the middle class rejoiced at the military coup, because to them it signaled a return to law and order, to the beauty of tradition, skirts for women and short hair for men, but they soon began to suffer from the impact of high prices and the lack of jobs.
While luxury stores, miraculous finance companies, exotic restaurants, and import business were flourishing, the unemployed lined up outside factory gates waiting for a chance to work at the minimum wage.
He was convinced that a period of dictatorship was necessary to bring the country back into the fold it never should have left.
He discovered that being rich was terribly annoying because it was so easy to make money and so difficult to find an incentive for spending
if people like us can be arrested then nobody is safe,
It was then I understood that the days of Colonel García and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.
