Word: ronca
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...people owned 80% of the land; tenant farmers got 2? a day, skilled workers 7? an hour. On the highlands, hungry Indians scratched the barren slopes for corn, still trying to live by what they remembered of the dignified old tribal customs. And ruling the country was Dictator Ronca, a strutting, streamlined Latin American demagogue who had won the peasants' support by promising them land, only to suppress them as soon as he got to power...
...rrright, but they prrresent a hope. To the rrragged and the hungrry and the sick of hearrt they prrresent a hope!" Carlos remembered it a long time, especially after the dictator's police threw him in a dungeon and his wife traded herself to Dictator Ronca in exchange for his freedom...
When the successful revolt against Ronca came, it was thanks to the alliance of Don Ricardo's liberals and the Communists. But Don Ricardo wondered what the Communists would do if they got the cabinet posts they demanded, especially the police ministry. In the end, with troubled Carlos at his side, he drove in the darkness to make a deal with what was left of the old Ronquistas, the dictator's former followers...