The more apt one is of an alligator, which until recently ambled along at the slow, five-year-plan rhythm of socialism, its meal ticket assured, but is now beginning to run like a lizard, slip through any crack in the wall and rapidly regenerate the tail that got pulled off.
La imagen es otra. Es la de un caimán, que hasta hace poco se movía al lento ritmo quinquenal del socialismo y ahora esta aprendiendo a correr como lagartija que aprovecha cualquier rendija para pasar y que regenera rápidamente las colas que le cortan.ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus