Half of San Martin's army was comprised of Afro-Argentine soldiers. Slaves could earn their freedom by serving in the military, and some Afro-Argentine men...

I end up in the kitchen helping to cook the dinner, salsa-ing over to the cooker to put the shepherd’s pie in. Then cha-cha-cha, holding the saucepan with one hand while stretching out my other arm to perfect my armography.

A longer me—my shadow—walked before me, bending its back and drooping its arms, and angularizing its elongated legs like drowsy compasses.

There began to appear from the East, cropping up now here, now there, but in general along lines of advance towards the West, individuals or small communities who proposed and propagated a new and, as they called it, a purified form of religion.