Word: emiliano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drifted home again to exhibit what he had done. He ran right into the revolution against Dictator Diaz. The same week Diego's exhibit opened, Francisco Madero proclaimed Diaz a usurper and, with the help of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, began the seven-month job of forcing the aging dictator out of Mexico. After Diego's show closed, he lit out for the open country, carrying messages to the revolutionaries...
Apparently Somoza was only trying to smoke out a plot that was being hatched across the border, but Arevalo had no intention of being used as a smudge pot. "Absolutely false," he replied coldly. Old Nicaraguan Rebel Emiliano Chamorro, who is now in Guatemala, took time off from his scheming to add his own sardonic comment. "Our efforts are confined to diplomacy," he said. "Somoza, scared by his own crimes, has a persecution complex and is trying to escape attention by making fantastic accusations to justify a wave of terror in Nicaragua...
...Vive. At week's end, Somoza was still on the alert. Night & day his airplanes patrolled the sky over Managua, and the tough Guardia had been withdrawn to positions on the hill. Whispered Managuans: "They're coming, they're coming soon." Who? Why, old General Emiliano Chamorro, of course', who at 76 was about to embark on his 17th revolution...
...eyes." Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under his photographer's black cloth...
...ello, who had been kicked out of the presidency when he turned on The Boss and decided to run the country himself (TIME, June 2), spoke out with surprising boldness. Biding its time was Somoza's real opposition, led by General Carlos Pasos and gimlet-eyed General Emiliano Chamorro...