“Student today don’t mean na’, but in a Latin America whipped into a frenzy by the Fall of Arbenz, by the Stoning of Nixon, by the Guerrillas of the Sierra Madre, by the endless cynical maneuverings of the Yankee Pig Dogs – in a Latin America already a year and a half into the Decade of the Guerrilla – a student was something else altogether, an agent for change, a vibrating quantum string in the staid Newtonian universe. Such a student was Arquimedes. He also listened to the shortwave, but not for Dodger scores; what he risked his life for was the news leaking out of Havana, news of the future.”
Díaz, Junot. ”Amor!” The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.