Word: guayaquil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon in June 1939, slim young Julia Esther Briones walked into a swank Guayaquil barbershop, pumped five bullets into her rich, reclining, about-to-be-shaved lover, Ramón Hidalgo R. To jail went Julia with a nine-year sentence. In November 1940, Army Captain Félix Guerrero Zarate blasted three bullets into the beautiful young body of his just-divorced wife, María Magdalena Mejía. To jail went Félix with an eight-year sentence...
...Haiti offered air fields. Colombia promised action "to prevent by all means any menace to the security of the Panama Canal directly or indirectly from Colombia territory." Venezuela strengthened guards at petroleum fields, airports, industrial and military establishments. As Ecuador drafted a pledge of solidarity with the U.S., Guayaquil's El Telégrajo urged that "islands,* ports, coast line, aviation fields and other defense facilities be placed at the disposition of [U.S.] military forces." Panama Canal defenses were in excellent order...
...Gulf of Guayaquil commences geographically at Cabo Blanco, on the Peruvian coast, so there is nothing unusual in that "the Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes...
...Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil to seize Puerto Bolivar...
This map shows where the Western Hemisphere's only war has been going on during the past fortnight-in defiance of an armistice agreement and unknown to the rest of the world. The Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses...