Word: partida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Porra v. A. B. C. To keep this up Gerardo Machado had to stay in office. To keep him in he established the Partida de la Porra, the Party of the Bludgeon, to beat and shoot opposition out of existence. For a brief period a female Porra was set up among husky prostitutes who attacked the wives and daughters of anti-Machadoans on the streets, ripping their clothes off with razor blades. Violence begets violence. In 1931 after the collapse of ex-President Menocal's abortive revolution (TIME. Aug. 17. 1931 et seq.) the A. B. C. was established...
...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...