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...Last week Peru's Strong Man, bulky President General Oscar Raimundo Benavides, and some of his Ministers decided to leave Lima's Government Palace for a three-day holiday at Paracas Bay, 200 miles down the coast from Lima. Minister of Government and Interior General Antonio Rodríguez, left behind to keep a watchful eye on things at home, accompanied the President & party to the docks at Callao, port of Lima, and bade them Godspeed. He did not say anything about a safe return...
...Minister Rodríguez scooted back to Lima, gathered a handful of followers, largely Government employes from his own ministry, and marched into the Government Palace. He summoned the Army officer in command of the palace machine-gun squad. "I am assuming the Executive post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns...
...came to do my duty," he informed General Rodríguez. Fast-talking Antonio Rodríguez explained that he had taken over the chief executive's job because Benavides had sailed for Europe. "That is untrue," replied the Sergeant Major. Minister Rodríguez, according to the official version of the story, lunged for the officer's gun. It cracked twice and Rodríguez fell dead...
...evil ways and reformed. To many a Westerner, the swashbuckling hold-up man who confined his depredations mainly to big banks and railroads was at least half hero. South of the Rio Grande the distinction between bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained that the assaults attributed to him over four States for a number of years were all untrue, claimed that he started robbing only as a defiant...
...General Rodríguez is known on the border as the in & out leader of Mexico's exiguous Los Dorados ("The Gold Shirts"). Four years ago he had a few thousand followers in Mexico City who sported gold-colored jackets and Texas hats, if they could afford them, attacked small Jewish shopowners. Then they made the mistake of trying to break up a workers' parade and soon after General Rodriguez was flown to the border. On the U. S. side of the line he has gathered about him no 800,000 men but a handful of other disgruntled...