Word: olavarria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month gunmen began spreading their shots. One night as he drove home to suburban Miramar, Sugar Merchant Julio Lobo Olavarria, one of Cuba's richest men, was wounded by gunfire from a passing sedan. Lobo denied having refused a $50,000 shakedown demand...
Three of Don Tinto's Cabinet Ministers who are loyal to the Popular Front have been involved in recent scandals. An investigating committee found fraud in the entry of Jewish refugees and held Abraham Ortega's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible. Arturo Olavarria's Ministry of Agriculture let an Agricultural Export Board buy race-track stock for the purpose of improving animal husbandry. And Minister of Education Rudecindo Ortega got himself mixed up in a row between Radicals and Socialists at a professors-&-teachers convention last month. These scandals gave Radical Leader Durán his opportunity...