Word: jose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of the country's people, torn from sleep by the high drama, heard the evidence on their radios. When the clerk finished, Panamanians struggled to grasp an appalling accusation. According to the confessed triggerman, the highest plotter in last fortnight's race-track assassination of President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was none other than José Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vice President and legally installed successor as President of Panama...
...invasion of Costa Rica began in a matter of hours after President Jose Figueres had called upon the Organization of American States for help. Under a waning moon, a band of armed Costa Rican exiles landed before dawn from two planes at Villa Quesada (pop. 3,500), 40 miles from the Nicaraguan border. About the same time several hundred invaders, afoot or in small boats, moved into the cattle land on the Nicaraguan border near La Cruz. It was a daring challenge to the O.A.S., recognized peacekeeper of the Americas. But early this week, O.A.S. was resolutely measuring...
...away with anarchy." said Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, explaining why he ran for President of Panama in 1952. As the country's strongman police chief he had watched five men try to govern Panama during the span of one normal presidential term, had reluctantly turned a couple of the failures out of office at gunpoint. President Remón brought order out of disorder, and Panama found the sensation so pleasant that it marked him down as almost indispensable. But last week Remón lay dead, and something like a relapse into anarchy plainly threatened...
...Arnulfo Arias, M.D. '25, prominent suspect in connection with last Sunday's assassination of Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon, is the second Harvard graduate to have attempted a Central American revolution by violence. Pedro Albizu y Campos '16, Puerto Rican Nationalist, was an organizer of the shootings in the House of Representatives last March...
...Ecuador," says President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, "is a very difficult country to govern." He should know; he is currently involved in his third try at it. The big difficulty in both of his previous terms was the armed forces. Velasco twice tangled with top commanders, who accused him of unconstitutional conduct, and twice got chucked out of his job. Last week it was Velasco v. the military again...