Word: saavedras
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...Bolivia there are fewer whites than in Minneapolis, and there are some 3,000,000 Indians and "cholos" (mixed breed). One cholo is named Saavedra. Well educated, he is a shrewd lawyer, was once head of the National University, has traveled abroad. Some time ago he conducted a revolution. Now he is President Saavedra...
President Saavedra has been classed as one of the three most tyrannical of all South American tyrants. He is classed with President Gomez of Venezuela and President Leguia of Peru as the ne plus ultra in tyrants...
Thereupon Claude O. Pike of the Chicago Daily Tribune rushed down to Bolivia to get the facts. The most specific charge (and to Anglo-Saxons the most heinous) was that Saavedra suppressed the press. The second, like unto it, was that he cruelly banished and incarcerated opposition journalists and politicians...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in 1547. The exact date is not known, but as Catholics are baptized as soon as possible after birth, it must have been on the 7th or 8th of October, because he was christened in the Church of Santa...
...Saavedra's claim to distinction rests with his importation of a German general and other officers (in spite of the Versailles Treaty). These officers put the entire Bolivian army under the guard of armed irregular forces. They also established a nationwide system of espionage which is said to be a wonder of perfection...