Word: hernandez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathized with the lonely plight of owl-eyed Emperor Henry was swart little President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, a nation about as large as Maryland. President Martinez, a vegetarian, a teetotaller and an authority on agricultural reform, had been in office more than two years before the U. S. recognized him, knew only too well the penalties of nonrecognition. On Jan. 26 of this year, President Roosevelt was ready to admit the existence of President Martinez. Thirty-six days later President Martinez was ready to admit privily the existence of Emperor Kang Teh. But he apparently...
Last September Capt. Juan Blas Hernandez, a bowlegged old bushwhacker who fought Tyrant Machado for years and had started a lively little campaign against the Grau Government, suddenly appeared in Havana, publicly embracing not only President Grau but also swart "Emperor" Fulgencio Batista, the onetime Sergeant who led the Army's revolt against its officers, and to the world's surprise has maintained control of the Army ever since...
Last week unstable Hernandez struck again. In Atares Fortress, in the San Ambrosio and Dragones military posts, sections of the Army in sympathy with the ABC opposition rebelled in an effort to restore the brief conservative government of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. Leading the Atares rebels was bowlegged old Hernandez, quickly joined by the men from the other posts, for Atares Fortress, built in 1767 with walls of masonry over six feet thick, was reputedly proof against modern shell fire...
Meanwhile in Havana the ABC set civilian sharpshooters sniping at soldiers from the rooftops. Atares Fortress was a bloody shambles. In the midst of the siege a wild-eyed messenger burst into the Presidential palace shouting that Rebel Hernandez had been killed. It was true, and so had over 150 others. Atares surrendered...
...collected a second time by a new government. There is order without law because the Cubans are a friendly people. . . . The situation in Cuba is a kind of passive anarchy." Far from passive last week was General Menocal's onetime subordinate, Captain Juan Bias Hernandez, veteran of the abortive 1931 Menocal Revolution against Tyrant Machado. With his wide sombrero cocked jauntily, swaggering Captain Bias was fighting Government troops and recruiting fighters of his own in Camaguey province. Last week he captured several towns-one named Moron-and beat his way steadily toward Havana. Terrified President Grau alternately threatened Bushwhacker...