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Last week, there came revolution to Ecuador. Troops in Quito, the capital, and Guayaquil captured the civil and military authorities at both places, jailed them. General Francisco Gomez de la Torre was proclaimed Military Chief of Government. The people were given to understand that the coup had been planned to end maladministration. There was no bloodshed, little excitement...
Explosions of bombs, poppings of rifles, whistlings of bullets, clashings of knives and swords filled the streets of Lisbon one morning last week. Many people were killed, President Texeira Gomez sought refuge in one of the city barracks. Loyal troops, after a considerable struggle, finally put down the revolt. Violent disturbances in the Provinces were also reported...
...became dictator. In 1908, having long suffered from a serious illness, he left the country to undergo an operation in Germany. While on board ship off shore, Juan Vicente Gomez, acting head of the Government who has ever since been President, sent him a message telling him not to return? which injunction he always obeyed...
Villa of Comeada: " At the beginning of October, 1919, Homem Christo had rented at Comeda a house. . . . Eight days afterward, one of his friends, Gomez Paredes, came and asked for a night's hospitality. . . . After they had passed the evening together, each retired to his bedroom about 1 a. m. . . . Hardly had he put out his candle, when Mr. Paredes heard knocks on his window panes. He got up and opened his window, but saw nobody. He lay down again. He heard steps quite close to him and doors opening and closing all over the building. He lighted...
...General Emilio Arevalo Cedeno led an unsuccessful revolt against the Gomez regime in 1920. He stands for constitutional government and is bitterly opposed to the oppressive dictatorship exercised by President Gomez and the minor Gomezes...