Word: ferrera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honduras. After a Government victory at Chamelecon, loyal troops beat the bush where Rebel General Gregorio Ferrera and his insurgents were hiding, promised a decisive battle from day to day. In Congress at Tegucigalpa, Representative...
...have to wait long for its answer. Exactly one week after the Logtown outrage?over the weekend, as is customary in Latin America?civil war suddenly erupted in Honduras just north of Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports to take...