Word: ciudad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such incidents gave Bermúdez a reputation for a close sense of duty almost from the day he entered politics in the sleazy border town of Ciudad Juárez, where he had made a $6 million fortune distilling Waterfill Frazier bourbon whisky. Within two weeks of his election as mayor in 1942, he had launched such a housecleaning as Mexico had rarely seen. He cracked down on a free-flowing traffic in narcotics, stolen autos and women, kicked grafters out of the city hall. He was the sort of independent President Alemán wanted to bring order...
Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure. This week work was expected to start on another slaughterhouse at Barinas. Already caraqueños found llano meat in the markets at 27? a Ib. Last spring they had paid three times as much...
...that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...
Actually, Trujillo had two Communist parties in rehearsal. One had been formed abroad by refugees; the leaders were now in Ciudad Trujillo to see how the Dictator proposed to pay off. The other was strictly home town hocuspocus. Trujillo had created it on paper and manned it with his stooges while he waited for the real Communists to show up. Anyway, he would keep the bogus party alive, just in case some of the real actors should prove unfit for their roles in the Dominican puppet theaters...
Because he was also a prudent man, Dean Bonilla immediately hightailed it for the safety of the Mexican Consulate. When he emerged, on the Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...