Word: lozano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government will act like a magnificent sun which illuminates everything and burns no one." promised Julio Lozano, who last week-reluctantly-became the strongman of Honduras. Such rounded oratorical periods came as a surprise from Lozano, a onetime bookkeeper; only a month before, at what seemed the peak of an undramatic 25-year career in politics, he had been simply his country's able Vice President, serving out the last weeks of his term. Then ailing President Juan...
Manuel Gálvez' abrupt departure for the Panama Canal Zone "for medical treatment" thrust Lozano into the presidency, just in time to meet a major political crisis out of which he emerged as boss...
...fell short of an absolute majority (TIME, Oct. 25). Under the constitution, that threw the decision to Congress. But when Congress convened, only Villeda Morales' supporters took their seats; his opponents, by heading off the needed quorum of two-thirds, prevented congressional ratification of his election. This left Lozano no choice under the law but to assume the technical powers of a dictator...
Villeda Morales, freed from the time-honored obligation of leading what would have been Honduras' 135th revolution, said in relief: "The presidency is not worth the life of a single Honduran." President Lozano converted Congress into a Council of State to draft a new constitution under which another, and more decisive election can be attempted - but probably not before...
...years ago, in this space, I first introduced you to Rafael Delgado Lozano, the ubiquitous man of all work in TIME'S Mexico City news bureau, and described something of the life he leads there. TIME and Delgado met one spring morning on the Laredo Highway back in 1938. He was taking idle roadside bets as to whether the next U.S. automobile coming down the road would have crumpled fenders (about 50% of the cars showed signs of having smacked jaywalking cattle somewhere along the highway...