Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went into small businesses (grain brokerage, real estate) and became the U.S. consular agent in the chaotic days following the 1910 revolution. His financial talents were frustrated by a shortage of funds until he had a fortunate stroke of bad luck. In 1920 Jenkins was kidnaped by General Manuel Peláez, one of the bandit enemies of then-President Venustiano Carranza, and held for $25,000 ransom. Rather than offend the intervention-prone U.S., Carranza paid off- and through an unlikely stroke of generosity on General Pelÿez' part, Jenkins is said to have received half...
Gift of Foresight. Just when Prohibition gripped the U.S., Jenkins plunged into the sugar and alcohol business. Sometimes he bought in his own name, other times in cooperation with such men as Maximino Avila Camacho, the brother of onetime (1940-46) President Manuel Avila Camacho. When the great expropriator, President Lázaro Cárdenas, began casting covetous eyes at some of Jenkins' sugar land in the late 1930s, Jenkins shrewdly gave the land to Cÿrdenas as a gift. Later Jenkins told a friend, "I came out on top. I still get my sugar from...
...friendship centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel...
...sometimes sign up with a resistance group, or go off to a crude camp in the boondocks, where they learn guerrilla warfare. Only two of the 50 or so exile groups in Miami have much organization. The Democratic Revolutionary Front, a five-group coalition coordinated by ex-Premier Manuel ("Tony") Varona, 51, has a big brick building and the best financing; the Revolutionary Movement of the People (M.R.P.), headed by Engineer Manuel Ray, 37, has less money but is believed to operate the most effective underground inside Cuba. Both make only the smallest dent in the mass of jobless, moneyless...
Living Underground. The next 13 years Haya spent in prison or underground. In 1945, then (and now) President Manuel Prado, a banker, legalized APRA, but under a new name. Out of hiding, Haya spoke before 175,000: "We aspire to create an authentic social justice, not one that comes from Moscow." Yet once again, when an APRA-hatmg newspaper editor was murdered, the aristocracy threw out the coalition regime that APRA had helped elect (but in which it did not have a commanding voice) and forced the party back underground. Haya spent five years as a refugee in the Colombian...