Word: arosemena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the President's plane had decanted him in Cuba, Panama was abuzz. When he heard that Don Arnulfo was gone, onetime Police Chief Colonel Manuel Pino rubbed his hands. With two other veteran politicos, Julio Fabrega and Leopoldo Arosemena, he had been planning for a month to seize the police force and set up a junta...
Ambitious, hotheaded young Dr. Arnulfo Arias bounced brashly into Panamanian politics nine years ago when he led a handful of youthful revolutionaries into the Presidential Palace, forced the resignation of President Florencio Arosemena. Up to the vacated post stepped First Vice President Dr. Ricardo Alfaro. Last year Drs. Arias and Alfaro toed off for the 1940-44 Presidency...