Word: ndez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, Jésus Menéndez, No. 2 Cuban Communist and leader of the Sugar Workers' Federation, had been touring the eastern end of the island, stirring up the workers. He was a little tired when he took the train at Yara one day last week. His next stop would be the busy sugar port of Manzanillo, where there was to be a big rally...
...than pleased by the flamboyant reception. He hastily denied a local Communist boast that he was Marshal Georgi Zhukov's nephew, said he merely shared the same name-"just as Fernandez is the name of your Foreign Minister and also that of a prize fighter, Antonio Fernández...
From a hole in the wall of Mexico City's penitentiary, guards extracted a counterfeiting outfit and 200 phony $20 U.S. bills. The proprietor was inmate Luis Eduardo Shelley Hernández, counterfeiter extraordinary, graduate of Atlanta and Alcatraz...
Little El Salvador was the first Central American country to use passive resistance to depose a dictator. Last May General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez was ousted by a sit-down strike (brazos caidos, literally: arms dangling). When a military clique/headed by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, clamped a new dictatorship on the country last week, Salvadorans began to dangle their arms again in a dangerous...
...revolutionary mood spread to neighboring El Salvador, where two opposing factions both battled Government troops in an attempt to move their candidates into the President's office. President Andres Ignacio Menéndez resigned promptly "for health reasons" and was replaced by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, who represented a third faction. Also from El Salvador came word that revolution had broken out in Honduras...