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Word: macuelizo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best to look like it. From his Tegucigalpa house, boxes of arms appeared and were loaded into trucks. Soldiers were recruited, and promised pay of $2.50 a day. The force thus swiftly mobilized was uniformed in fresh suntans, and airlifted (in commercial DC-3s, at $400 a flight) to Macuelizo, Copan and Nueva Ocotepeque. Honduran hamlets on the Guatemalan frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Battle of the Backyard | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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