Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should U. S. refugees have to be evacuated from Rio de Janeiro it would take the Pensacola steaming at her terrific cruiser speed of 33 knots four days to reach them from Guantanamo...
...Lucky Juan" No. 1. Of formal warfare there was little or none in Brazil last week. The city and state of Rio de Janeiro were calm. Government troops, advancing directly inland more than 150 miles, cowed numerous rebel elements in the state Minas Geraes...
Directly south of and adjoining Rio de Janeiro is the rich coffee state of Sao Paulo, and against this region rebel columns from the three states still further south advanced last week. As commander-in-chief of the rebels there emerged General "Lucky Juan" Alberto Barros, veteran of several Brazilian rumpuses...
...late as last May, in Buenos Aires, he was plotting the present rebellion with revolutionists in Brazil. On the morning of May 10 he left for Rio Grande do Sul in a plane of the Buenos Aires-Paris airmail. The plane fell into the sea off Montevideo. All on board except "Lucky Juan" drowned. He swam lustily ashore...
...rebel loomed one Juarez Tavora. He began the week a captain, ended it a general. Operating in the northern rebel sector?that is, north of Rio de Janeiro?this young daredevil was credited with seizing the state governments of Parahyba and Pernambuco, whence he advanced south upon the huge state of Bahia which adjoins Minas Geraes. Like a dashing Phil Sheridan the "General" moved his army with such vigorous celerity that he was several times reported to be in several places at once...