Word: escuela
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggling young artist, Mexico's Escuela Universitaria de Bellas Artes had a good deal to offer. Housed in an ancient convent in the sunny, spired old town of San Miguel de Allende, 150 miles northwest of Mexico City, its cheap, comfortable living and picturesque setting got it wide publicity as a G.I. students' paradise (TIME, March 29, 1948). Over 100 U.S. veterans have flocked south to enroll. But during the past year, San Miguel's sleepy decorum has been shattered by one ruckus after another. Last week the school had more trouble than it could handle...
Gallegos was held under protective custody in the Escuela Militar; other prominent Acción Democratistas fled to foreign embassies for sanctuary. Betancourt went into hiding. But the vast majority of the party's politicians and labor leaders were clapped into jail. Union funds were seized by the army. Newspapers were ordered to hew strictly to the army's line, and an almost continuous radio barrage of pro-junta propaganda helped to sell the coup to the country...
Back in 1941, high-minded Uruguayans moved to solve one of Montevideo's oldest problems by founding an Escuela de Vagos e Inadaptos, or Bums' School. Their plan: to get mendicants, degenerates and bums off the streets, and to teach a useful trade to underprivileged...
...revolution had been well planned. At four o'clock one afternoon a group of young Army officers revolted in Caracas' San Carlos barracks. By nine o'clock they had forced their way into the strategic Escuela Militar (military school) and Miraflores Palace, the Presidential residence. They had also captured President Isaías Medina Angarita...
Death for the Invader-At each end of a spacious hall in the Escuela Republica de Mexico stood a volcanic panel in which huge figures, with muscles gleaming like polished automobile fenders, strove and squirmed in apocalyptic combat. In the north panel, symbolizing the history of Mexico, a many-armed, many-legged, colossal bowman, representing the Aztec hero Cuauhtemoc, bestrode the prostrate body of a Spanish invader, while such heroes as Hidalgo, Morelos, Juarez, Zapata and Lazaro Cardenas looked appreciatively...