Word: lozano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salinas Lozano, 41, Secretary of Economy. A top economist and Ruiz Cortines' president of the National Commission on Investments, he has written a definitive study entitled Possibilities of Foreign Capital Investments in Mexico...
...Honduras' Julio Lozano seized power during an election mixup in 1954, two years later claimed victory in a fraudulent election even before the ballots were counted; when his cops capped the fraud by firing into a crowd of demonstrators, he was ousted by a military junta, died in Miami last August...
Sunday morning, air force planes patrolled the skies and troops deployed on the streets. From the military academy on the outskirts of the capital, Colonel Caraccioli telephoned Lozano: the time of decision had come. After holding out for the usual guarantees of life and property for himself and his associates, the old man signed his resignation...
Dour and crotchety, Julio Lozano never had any noteworthy popular support. He rode into the vice-presidency in 1948 under President Juan Manuel Galvez (the rebel major's father). In 1954, when presidential elections ended in a no-majority stalemate, Lozano happened to be sitting in for the ailing President Galvez, and seized power. Last August, hit one-two by an attempted barracks uprising and a case of high blood pressure, he turned over his authority briefly to a junta headed by General Rodriguez, then persuaded Galvez to stand in again as chief of state and went to Miami...
...flew back three weeks ago to supervise the election. Scarcely a ballot box was left unstuffed, or an oppositionist unintimidated in Lozano's electoral effort. For what it was worth, he won. But when his cops topped off the fraud by shooting into a crowd of demonstrators on Election Day, Lozano's number was up. With the gentle air of friends who know what is best, the general, the colonel and the major eased him out. Said the junta: "We intend to govern democratically." It was the 13 5th revolution in Honduras' history-and the first military...