Word: passarelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With some 500,000 Guatemalans voting, Ydigoras piled up a 3-to-1 margin over the government's candidate. Miguel Ortiz Passarelli, in the capital, where poll watchers were numerous. But he was swamped by the rural vote of laborers on government-owned plantations and Indians, who invariably back "el señor gobierno." Beaming Candidate Ortiz promptly tossed himself a champagne victory party...
...government decided to use force. Castillo Armas' police fired into the marchers, killing four and injuring 27. A 30-day state of siege, clamped on that night, was extended last week for another month. "There are still many persons to arrest," explained Minister of Interior Miguel Ortiz Passarelli...
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