Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grand Hotel. Handsome Dr. Juan José Arevalo became phenomenally popular as a Presidential candidate. Ponce forced him to take refuge in the Mexican Embassy. The Mexican Ambassador, Dr. Romeo Ortega, had openly supported the first "People's Revolution." The Mexican Embassy took in so many refugees that Dr. Ortega had to rent part of the Palace Hotel to care for them...
...Ponce critic who did not flee to the Mexican Embassy was Alejandro Cordova, bald little Congressman and publisher of El Imparcial. One day Publisher Cordova was murdered by assassins. Last week Ponce held a closely supervised election to name, among others, a successor for Deputy Cordova. People shouting "Viva Arevalo!" were clapped in jail. Then the revolution broke out. Before he left for Mexico, General Ponce occupied Arevalo's former suite in the Mexican Embassy...