Word: jefe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Live Christ the King. The tautly disciplined column marched in 38 groups, each under its own jefe de grupo. The groups even prayed in unison. Sometimes there would be a moment of silence. Then the column leaders would shout "Viva Cristo Rey," and back would come the roar: "Viva...
What Haya and a lot of his followers feared was assassination. Remembering what happened to Gaitan in Bogota, Haya had ordered the No. 2 Aprista, handsome Manuel Seoane, to stay in Chile for a while, to be ready to take over if something should happen to the Jefe Maximo (supreme chieftain). Most people in Peru agreed that, should Haya be assassinated, APRA's answer would probably be revolution...
Chin jutting, arms flaying, the Jefe Maximo accused his enemies of planning dictatorship. "Their denials won't fool anybody," he shouted. "There is dictatorship when one rules by decree, infringes the constitution, betrays Parliament, proves disloyal to the people's will. The time to speak out is at hand. I won't be silenced by threats. They will have to do to me what was done to Colombia's Gaitan . . . We want peace, not war, but let no one forget we are the strongest...
This is election week in the Dominican Republic, but El Jefe did little of the talking. There was no need to discuss the election; it was already rigged, with all the ruthless efficiency of the most thorough dictatorship in the Hemisphere. El Jefe cast a glance at the obelisk and its inscription: "I have put the ambitions of my youth and the brilliance of my career at the service of my country." Beyond such pap, inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican...
...this last injunction would have been news. Apra had often used gangster methods in politics; it had been blamed for the still unsolved murder last January of Rightist Editor Francisco Grana (TIME, Jan. 20). Perhaps now Peru's dominant party was going to restrain itself. At least the Jefe had given the word...