Word: magana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junta promised free presidential elections on schedule in 1962, freed political prisoners, dissolved Congress and promised to elect a new one soon. To answer the inevitable question, the junta chose as its spokesman Lawyer Fortin Magana. It "definitely will not be of the Cuban type,'' he said. To a crowd outside the palace he called: "Because we believe that you deserve more than a crumb of bread and justice is precisely why we are here." How much more than a crumb it would take to keep El Salvador pacified remained to be seen...