Word: commercio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first thing to throw a rock at, when you have made your point in a Latin American political upheaval, is the opposition's newspaper. Accordingly, fiery Senator Maldonado led a mob of 3,000 yowling sympathizers to the offices of El Commercio. After stoning the building, he led his followers to the home of Luis Felipe Borja, resident representative of the match company. Here a body of cavalry interfered. In the clash five citizens were killed, 50 wounded. After that things simmered down...
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