Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although the U.S. is not the most popular nation in Costa Rica (ranking below Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, El Salvador), Costa Rican girls fancy Americans as husbands: half of those questioned (56) would like to marry Americans. One reason: "Americans are more considerate, faithful and helpful, and less jealous." Costa Rican men never dry dishes...
...long rainy season drew to a close last week, troops of El Salvador's Dictator Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, using Lend-Lease planes, bombed and strafed 1,000 shabby rebels back over the Guatemalan border. In Guatemala, meanwhile, the people celebrated their successful revolution (TIME, Oct. 30) by turning out in masses to vote in their first honest presidential election. These were just the high lights in Central America's recent unrest...
...heedless of boundary lines as rain in the lush jungles, revolution had swept Central America for nine months - not only in Salvador but in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The military rulers who survived the revolutionary purge killed, tortured, imprisoned hundreds of men & women, drove thousands into exile. The people continued to fight back with guerrilla warfare, bombs, strikes, captured Lend-Lease equipment, pamphlets - and even an underground radio...
Hundreds of farmers stayed away from market - and El Salvador is a big tropical farm : a farmers' strike paralyzes the country. Opinion grew that Colonel Aguirre would soon lose his fight against the passive people. But Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas rattled his Lend-Lease armor, declared that Salvadorans who joined the passive resistance movement would be shot...
...Salvador Dali showed the world his conception of syphilis last week. For sheer sensation, the serpentine horror painted by the showmanly Spaniard easily ran away with the honors at a Manhattan exhibition of 24 health posters, intended for postwar Europe...