After the rains greened the landscape and temperatures diminished, we started hiking more. The Ridge Trail is one of our favorite. It starts at Emory Pass and goes down to Kingston. It affords fabulous views.
Moscow, 1954-1988, With no job prospects in Moscow, Grigulevich begins to write about South America and the Roman Catholic Church, and finds an enthusiastic audience among young Russians interested in the outside world.
Doña Ana County has approved the construction in Santa Teresa (near El Paso) of the $165 billion Jupiter Project. What does that mean?
Rome, 1948-53. In the most outrageous covert act in the history of espionage, Josif and Laura fake their way into Roman diplomatic society by impersonating wealthy Costa Rican coffee merchants.
Argentina again, 1941-47: Grigulevich begins his war on Nazis by sabotaging a bookstore, then ships in Buenos Aires harbor heading to Germany. He and Laura head to Brazil after war ends.
Mexico, 1940-41: After the raid, gatekeeper found dead, Siqueiros heads to the hills, Grigulevich returns to Santa Fe with new lover, and another Stalin assassin kills Trotsky with ice axe.
Mexico, 1940. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo welcomed Trotsky to Mexico, but David Siqueiros and his muralists planned to scare him away by raiding his compound.
Everyone agrees that America changed with the election and re-election of our present President, but they all disagree about what that change is and if the change is good, bad, or ugly. My two-cents worth is that American eugenics has changed to pop-eugenics, and pop-eugenics rules the day.
New York, late 1938 to early 1939. Intercepted spy cables detail how Grigulevich attacked the credibility of the 'legal' Soviet agents in New York, resulting in the office ehief being executed..
Santa Fe, 1938-1940, part 2. Grigulevich might have found friendship at both Capital Pharmacy and Zook's, but the idea that either became a safe house does not square with the facts.Zook’s wasn’t the only drug store Grigulevich got to know in Santa Fe. Eight doors away was Capital Pharmacy, 82 East San Francisco (now the
New Mexico, 1938-40. Santa Fe was a place for Grigulevich to cool his heels, develop a new identity for his next assignment, and make a connection with Zook’s drugstore.
Spain, 1936-38. Trotskyist became a dividing line in the Spanish Civil War where Grigulevich learned how to manipulate public opinion while doing his first professional killing.
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