Word: alvarado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luis ALVARADO...
...chance lead provided by the young daughter of a Secret Police detective had cracked the murder plot. Her boy friend, she told her father, had smuggled back from Guatemala a submachine gun, of the type that killed Remón. Prosecuting Attorney Francisco Alvarado arrested the youth. The boy named Lawyer Ruben Miro, who had paid him $150 for the weapon. Miró confessed that he had killed Remón and three of his friends who were having a postrace party in the presidential box (TIME...
...aborigines, created in Guatemala a culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding a horse got 100 lashes. The viceroyalty threw off the rule of Spain...
...Enemies of the People." Trouble began when Gabriel Alvarado, director of the National Orphanage and an avowed Communist, dismissed three Roman Catholic nuns of the Sisters of Charity, which founded the orphanage in 1867. A mob, made up largely of market women and university students, broke into the orphanage, beat up Alvarado and his aides, Another mob smashed up the offices of the Communist newspaper Octubre...
...Save the Nation." President Arbenz declared a state of siege, suspended constitutional guarantees for 30 days, banned gatherings and meetings "likely to affect public order." Then, in a gesture to antiCommunists, he dismissed Marxist Alvarado, appointed as the new orphanage director Roman Catholic Ernesto Cofino, who reinstated the three nuns...