Word: castaneda
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...State Department not only recognized Osmin Aguirre but urged other nations to do likewise. It probably wanted to complete its united Hemisphere front against Argentina in time for the Mexico City Conference. But Salvadorans feared that the little Dictator, thus encouraged, might snatch the Government from the less dreaded Castaneda and resume his tyranny...
...Salvador inaugurated last week its new, non-popular President, mummy-faced General Salvador Castaneda Castro, chosen in a one-candidate election. The crowds in the streets were small and cheerless. Beside the new President stood the savage little Dictator, outgoing President Osmin Aguirre...
...breathed a brief moment of freedom. It ended when Osmin Aguirre battered his way to power with the help of Lend-Lease arms. Hope rose again when all the nations of the Hemisphere (except dictator-ruled Nicaragua and Honduras) refused to recognize him. Chilled, he moderated his severity, staged Castaneda's election. Seemingly, he was forced to retreat toward democracy...