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Like Caesar, a number of these Latin leaders met their deaths through assassination: Castillo Armas in Guatemala, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and--within eight years--Carranza, Pancho Villa and Obregon in Mexico. Dictatorship brings with it danger, as today's headlines about Nicaragua's Gen. Somoza Debayle indicate. It is worth recalling that Somoza's father obtained his dictatorial power by assassinating Gen. Sandino, only to be assassinated himself some years later...
Films of Socialist realism, because they promote a particular ideology, always answer in the affirmative. Womack's answer is less biased, but strangely equivocal. He shows how, when Carranza was overthrown, the remaining Zapatista leaders won pivotal roles in the government of Obregon. The ejido program of the early twenties, which granted previously-claimed land to villages, was a Zapatista victory. The boost given the ejidos by Cárdenas in the thirties nearly satisfied the revolutionary goals of the Morelos villagers...
...writers treat Negroes fairly in their stories. At the end of World War I he became managing editor of The Nation, used the magazine's liberal platform to rail against U.S. imperialism in Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and champion recognition of Mexico's revolutionary Obregon regime...
...those who disagreed with him were enemies trying to usurp the revolution. He once flew into a rage at the powerful General Alvaro Obregón, ordered him at gunpoint to cosign a rebellious telegram, then had to retire for more than an hour to restrain himself from shooting Obregon...
...battle at the request of a film company. He tried to discredit the regime by raiding the border town of Columbus, N. Mex., and, although he achieved headline notoriety by disappearing with his whole army while General "Black Jack" Pershing led a 12,000-man punitive expedition after him, Obregon did not fall...