Word: cabrera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets of Buenos Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
...name in public, though in whispers they call him "Beautiful Murder." Seven months ago, 60 rebel soldiers plotted to oust him. For two weeks the Government did nothing. Then the plotters were sent to outposts at Pedernales (on the Haitian border), and at the town of Loma de Cabrera. When they had taken up their new posts, the conspirators were stabbed to death, a11 at the same time, on the same...