Word: oppositionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hondurans got the tipoff last month when Oppositionist Edmundo Pinto Mejia was arrested, then savagely beaten with the classic verga de toro (bull's pizzle). Newsmen hustling into Guatemala for safety last week reported a new "wave of terror"; Dictator Carías' jails were filling fast...
...very fortunate to escape from the Dictator's assassins," said Bonilla in Manhattan last week. "The ceremony of murder in Santo Domingo is usually more efficient." When Oppositionist Servio Fuentes was shot down on the street recently, the Government ambulance was standing nearby, the grave was dug and waiting...
...evenings quietly with political allies or at his spacious Mexico City home, listening to classical recordings with his pleasant wife and young daughter. Weekends, he is in summery Cuernavaca, golfing, visiting friends like Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (U.S. black-listed), gazing wryly at the neighboring home of Oppositionist Candidate and ex-Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla...
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...
Bluer than oppositionist Gomecistas were Brazil's Communists. U.S. Ambassador Adolph Berle's recent intervention had spiked Communist efforts to call for a constituent assembly, then stall elections and keep Vargas in power. Now Vargas, too, had discarded the idea...