Season of the Machete
“We paid out nearly $600,000 in overhead expenses. We paid forgers from Brussels, counterfeiters, gun salesmen from East Germany and the United States, informers, dope peddlers, whores, pickpockets, American intelligence men, top mercenaries like Kingfish Toone, Blinkie Tomas (the Cuban), Clive Lawson. And not one of these people was ever told exactly what it was that we were putting together in the Caribbean….The Rose DiaryThe saying “Mad dogs and Englishmen” refers obliquely to the fact that our sun will cook you like bacon. Beware!Sign on beach at Turtle BayApril 24, 1979; Coastown, San DominicaTuesday. The First Day of the Season.Not by coincidence, April 24 marked the end of the most spectacularly newsworthy trial ever held on the eighty-one-by-thirty-nine-mile Caribbean island of San Dominica.Parts of the pyrotechnic high court scene were hard to imagine or describe.For a beginning, the tiny, plain courtroom was packed to its high, square beam rafters. The room was as noisy as a ...sporting event.MoreLess
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