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Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was sunbathing when the revolt began. But he was not caught entirely off guard. His pervasive Gestapo had jailed opposition leaders and other citizens who objected a few weeks ago when he prolonged his tenure until 1949 and tightened his already arbitrary rule...
...Blood. President Martínez is a mystic who came to power in 1931. He first won election as Vice President, then arranged an army revolt, kicked out the President and took over the country. A dark and slender Indian who calls himself a theosophist, he used to proclaim: "The invisible legions follow me." After twelve years of his rule, his countrymen are ready to believe...
Since then, Dictator Martínez has suppressed plots, kept order with the help of his high-paid army, his spies, and the richer landlords. He made headlines by being the first to recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, and the Spanish regime of Francisco Franco. Otherwise he kept El Salvador out of the news...
...Paracutin split wide open and disgorged a little volcano. A lively row had sprung up between two powerful newspapers, El Universal and Novedades, over whether El Fakir's crucifixion was sacrilege. Universal, which sponsored El Fakir's show, finally overcame objections by getting from Archbishop Luis Martínez a statement: "I have nothing to say about this spectacle . . . because it is nothing that has to do with religion." Religious or not, many awed Mexicans gave El Fakir medals of the Virgin of Guadalupe, asked him to pray for them...
...Mexico ambitious Diego Martínez-Barrio, last president of Spain's Republican Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the Republican Cortes will decide when to re-establish the Republican Government in Spain. But absent from the meeting were the followers of Juan Negrín, Socialist last Premier of Republican Spain, now in England, as well as powerful other Socialist and Communist groups...