Word: pepe
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...winner in the presidential elections. In second place was Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia. an ex-President (1940-44) who still controlled the lame-duck Congress and got the election overturned as "fraudulent." Not until Ulate's campaign manager, a fiery, reform-minded planter named José ("Pepe") Figueres, rose in revolt and won a bloody, five-week civil war was Ulate able to take office. Figueres was elected President in his own right in 1953, went on to become the nation's most prominent political figure as head of the National Liberation Party, the biggest group...
...seats in the new Congress. Calderón Guardia's party won only 19 seats; 8 others went to a third party that will probably line up with the winners. It was a smashing defeat for Calderón Guardia, and a powerful boost for ambitious Pepe's chances of being re-elected President himself in four years...
...They Know Everything." As U.S. reporters got their conducted tour, a young man with the code name of "Pepe" who had escaped to Fort Lauderdale, was describing the hard lot of the anti-Castro underground. "Things in the underground seem impossible," he said. Reports that most of the underground had survived the mass roundups, he said, were overly optimistic...
...have been able to do since the invasion is hide and whisper," said Pepe. Castro boasts that he has 500,000 of Cuba's 6,000,000 people spying for him. On the 15-mile drive from his home to Havana, Pepe had to run ten checks: "Each time, they open the hood and look for guns in the engine. They look under the seat, in the trunk, everywhere. They take pictures, too," said Pepe, "of people going to church, going into certain offices, even just on the street." Recently, a wounded saboteur was making his confession...
...these words, Haya identified himself with such leaders of Latin America's anti-Communist left as Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Just as opposed to dictatorship of the left as of the right, Haya's fellow leftists have reached power proclaiming the compatibility of representative democracy and basic social reform. Having returned to Lima, Haya hopes to win power himself in Peru's presidential elections next year...