Word: cerda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mounting pressure from all sides, and survives primarily because he has 9,200 OAS troops behind him. The country's military is increasingly bitter about the leftists in the Cabinet, and last week forced García-Godoy to oust a key minister: Attorney General Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda, who is accused in sworn testimony of being a Communist-which he denies though he makes no secret of his partiality for ex-President Juan Bosch and the rebels who originally triggered the civil...
...gadfly to every Brazilian President since Getulio Vargas in the 1950s. Lacerda now has presidential ambitions of his own in the elections scheduled for next year. But to have a chance, he first had to secure his base by installing a hand-picked successor as Governor of Guanabara. La cerda chose a presentable crony, campaigned furiously for him. Nevertheless, Kubitschek's candidate defeated him at the polls-527,184 votes...