Word: gomezes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Venezuela, which has been said to be dominated by the full-blooded Indian family of Gomez, was reported in a state of revolution. No confirmation of the report could be obtained, but it was alleged by a rebel agent in the U. S. that General Areva-lo-Cedefio was marching at the head of a large army which is headed for Caracas, the capital...
...telegram, signed by more than 100 congressmen and sent to President Obregon, who was vacationing at a little fishing village on Lake Chapala, alleged that General Arnulfo Gomez, chief of the Mexico City garrison, had commissioned one Captain Viscarra, at the head of 200 men, to assassinate certain members of Congress, in particular one Jorge Prieto Laurens, Governor of the State of San Luis Potosi...
...General Gomez denied all these charges...
President Saavedra has been classed as one of the three most tyrannical of all South American tyrants. He is classed with President Gomez of Venezuela and President Leguia of Peru as the ne plus ultra in tyrants...