Crossword-Solution: MARIANAO 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The Americans then went to the home of the American Minister at Marianao, a suburb of Havana, where the insurgents had outposts just across the bridge, about 1,000 yards from the minister's house.

The mayor of the suburb of Marianao, together with the chief of police of that village, and four soldiers, who had agreed for a consideration to take part in the assassination, were stationed at a point carefully selected, with orders to fire a charge of buckshot into the President's back from the step of his automobile, and then behind the screen of trees and underbrush which lined the roadside to make their escape.

After you have amused yourself by walking in and out of the innumerable arches and avenues formed by this grand specimen of perhaps the most extraordinary species of tree in existence, you follow a narrow path, and walk on to Marianao, a Cuban village boasting an odd-looking church painted a vivid blue, and some very nice country houses, embedded in orange and banana orchards.

What pleased me most about Marianao were the country lanes, which are bordered by hedgerows covered with delightful creepers, the coral,--with its clusters of pink and white flowers,--the morning glory, with its wealth of azure blossoms,--the scarlet passion flower,--the blue sweet pea,--and a species of wild stephanotis, with an overpowering scent.

After this there was a general meeting at Marianao, the early bar to color, as distinguished from black, removed, and the infusion of the dark ritual of Efi into white blood began.