Word: calderon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solemn conclave. Before the dark backdrop of the tiny Association of Amateur Artists theater, dapper, grey-haired Brazilian Ambassador Luis Pereira Ferreira de Faro announced to a hushed audience the result of their deliberations. The diplomats, aided by local intellectuals and journalists, had selected luscious Peruvian Ana Maria Alvarez Calderon as Beauty Queen of All the Americas...
...Costa Rican exiles who had been training on Nicaraguan soil for a comeback. By allowing their leader, ex-President Rafael CalderÓn Guardia, to attack, Tacho set up several interesting possibilities. If discontent with the Figueres regime had reached the boiling point, an overnight coup might bring Calderon to power. If the attempt failed, Tacho could rid himself of his embarrassing guests. If the Caribbean Legion intervened to help Figueres, Tacho would have a chance to turn loose his well-trained Guardia National on those sworn enemies...
...crisis simmered down, Figueres was more solid than ever in the presidential chair. Somoza had his Legion foes at least temporarily disarmed. The O.A.S. could preen itself on a rapid job of calming intervention. Only Calderon Guardia had to face the fact of failure...
Army of Liberation (with arms and advisers lent by the Caribbean Legion) boot out Calderon Guardia and his motley following of extreme rightists and Communists. Tacho never forgot the Legion's real aim: destruction of such Caribbean dictators as Honduras' Carias, Dominican Republic's Trujillo, and Tacho himself...
Wait & See. At week's end an uneasy calm settled over the invaded area. The government was moving its hastily reorganized forces northward but avoiding battle. Presumably Calderon (and friend Tacho) hoped for an anti-Figueres uprising within Costa Rica. Meanwhile they awaited international reaction to their adventure...