Word: independencia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cruz staged one plenary session in a mountain glen, with snow-capped peaks as a background. For other sessions, he ran wires from the flag-festooned auditorium of the Teatro Independencia to amplifiers in the main plaza. As a result, most of mystified Mendoza heard an overpowering discussion of existentialism...
Over every coffee table-from the politicos' favorite Tupi-Namba café on Montevideo's palm-graced Plaza Independencia to the café in the Hotel Oriental in cattle-raising Treinta y Tres-the talk was of elections. On Nov. 24, Uruguayans would vote for everything from dog-catcher to President...
Both the size and the composition of the crowd that turned out in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Independencia to cheer Citizen Perón's first public campaign speech struck dismay into good Argentine democrats. The Perón followers (estimated at 200,000) were almost as impressive in numbers as the Democratic Unionists who had gathered the week before to shout Perón down. Milling about with the usual Perón nationalists and bullyboys were thousands of well-dressed, middle-class voters. Perón's attempt to split off a sector of Argentina...
Last week, in real Mexico, Independence Day passed and nothing very much happened. President Lazaro Cardenas went to the village of Dolores Hidalgo in Guanajuato State, stood before a microphone and roared the historic Grito de Dolores (Shout of Independence)-Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, viva la Independencia-which is Mexico's equivalent of the Confederacy's Rebel Yell. Then he made a speech. "Some people are trying to cause a rebellion in Mexico and entice the Mexican people away from the ways of peace," said the President. "An examination of the international situation will cause...