Word: chiriqui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Belisario Porras, 85, thrice President of Panama (between 1912 and 1924), idolized revolutionary before its separation from Colombia; of chronic bronchitis; in Panama City. Peasants hung the old fire-eater's picture near the saints' on their walls. He led a revolutionary expedition on Chiriqui in 1900, captured the capital of the province in hand-to-hand fighting with machetes, proclaimed himself leader of the Isthmus. When peace came after two years of guerrilla warfare he exiled himself, the next year repudiated the new republic because he disapproved its political character. Later won over, he became...