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...civil guard that eventually became a 2,500-man personal army responsible only to the President. The gripes grew louder and finally reached the flash point over the government party's choice of an almost certain successor in the Oct. 13 elections. He was Modesto Rodas Alvarado, 43, the hardheaded president of Congress who was determined to put the army in its place; he actually campaigned with a promise to curtail the military's power...
...armed forces chief who masterminded the revolt. With the sureness of past experience-he had led another coup in 1956 -López cut off communication to the countryside, imposed martial law and canceled the Oct. 13 presidential election. Ex-President Villeda Morales and ex-Presidential Candidate Rodas Alvarado were packed aboard an air force C-47 and flown to exile in Costa Rica. The Honduran army then went about mopping up loyalist resistance. At week's end, just as the new regime was being sworn in, fighting broke out again in the streets of Tegucigalpa. A downtown hotel...
Swashbuckling into Guatemala more than 400 years ago with soldiers, priests and instructions to Christianize the heathen, Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado took thoughtful note of the fact that much of the rites of the Mayas' animistic religion resembled Roman Catholicism. The Mayas burned candles and incense, venerated relics, held processions. Alvarado's priests seized on the common ground; they gave the local gods the names of saints, the Virgin and Christ, and pushed on to convert other pagans...
...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...