Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later, the Venezuelan army ousted President Rómulo Gallegos. Chile had already squelched a military plot; Costa Rica was now invaded from Nicaragua. Last week, Guatemala's liberal government was on the alert for a new move-the second in three weeks-by the military. In neighboring El Salvador, military men knocked over the regime of bumbling Salvador Castaneda Castro...
...along fine. Knowing that the Dictator was accustomed to censoring personally all outgoing cables about himself (in order to delete embarrassing copy and to see what others were saying about him), Hannifin typed out his copy and filed it from San Salvador, where censorship applies only to stories about El Salvador. There were no deletions and Hannifin, who by that time was "about the color of the background of Chaliapin's portrait of Somoza," went to the hospital with a severe attack of jaundice, answering the editors' remaining queries from his hospital bed up to the time...
Traffic swirled around the Plaza Bolivar; Christmas shopping was off only slightly. The Venezuelan idol, Luis Sánchez ("El Diamante Negro"), dispatched his quota of bulls in the Nuevo Circo bull ring, the horses made their customary circuits of the Hipódromo race track, and I've Always Loved You played to full houses at the Lido Theater...
...turns as if they had designed them. Oscar, in his red Ford with Viva Perón painted on it, won the first leg from B.A. to Salta, and then the second and third legs. Argentine fans, who take auto racing as seriously as football and politics, nicknamed Oscar El Aguilucho, the Young Eagle...
Night Flight. When World War II's democratic wave washed out dictators in El Salvador, Guatemala and Cuba, Tacho had some anxious moments. The U.S. was talking about Latin American dictatorial regimes, and Tacho, who once said he intended to rule for 40 years, decided that it was time to put on a democratic show. He would let the country choose his successor...