Word: cabrera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leader of these raids was Manuel Maria Jiron, onetime chief assassin for the late President Manuel E. Cabrera of Guatemala, and more lately a "general" in the guerilla army of Augusto Calderon Sandino, Nicaragua's brigand-patriot...
...President Cabrera sent Assassin Jiron to the U. S. on a secret mission. His instructions included going to Mt. Vernon and piously laying a wreath on George Washington's Tomb...
...readers will please remember that the account which follows is not mere speculation of my own, nor is it based wholly on the findings of the present expedition. It is to be seen in the records of the early Spanish explorers on this continent--notable among them Juan de Cabrera, to whom I made reference in my first letter--who ascertained much of their knowledge from the surviving Incas themselves. This is the explanation of the written language, and will be authenticated, I believe, by Hiram Bingham, who you will remember made the earlier expedition and unearthed Machu Picchu...