![]() ![]() ![]() Though often serious, this book is also a very humorous novel and Drummond writes it in a chatty, colourful style. Much later, he will read Sarmento’s reports on him and they are part of this book. We learn early on that he is followed by a police spy called Nelson Sarmento, the most notorious and in some ways most feared police operative of that time. Throughout the book, we will follow his activism, including a planned armed uprising in imitation of Fidel Castro. We learn that he is arrested for them and shares a cell with two others, who had torched the US consulate. ![]() His communist activities are one of several key plot themes in this book. ![]() He tells us that he failed at nationalising oil but did manage to nationalise his name, changing it to Roberto. As we shall see, he became a Communist and one of the activities of his fellow communists was to push for the nationalisation of the (primarily US) oil industry. In primary school, he was teased because of Francis the Talking Mule and, when older, because of the Franciscans, so he dropped Francis. In his younger days he was Robert Francis Drummond. He was not always called Roberto Drummond. Our hero/narrator is called Roberto Drummond and lives in Belo Horizonte. Home » Brazil » Roberto Drummond » Hilda Furacão (Hilda Hurricane) Roberto Drummond: Hilda Furacão (Hilda Hurricane) ![]()
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