Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theosophist's End Firecrackers popped, sirens screamed in El Salvador last week as hated Theosophist-Dictator. Maximiliano Hernández Martinez resigned the Presidency, fled to Guatemala. Said Martinez (who has slain his thousands): "The curtain has fallen. I have played my last chess game. I shall devote my life to agriculture and spiritual activity in Theosophy...
...times in history, when the "civil disobedience" of an unarmed people had overthrown a ruthless tyrant. After military revolt failed last month, practically the entire population of El Salvador rose in a spontaneous general strike (TIME, May 15). Led by students and professional men, the nation stopped like a clock. The Dictator's army deserted him; his cronies scuttled away...
...from Cabinet and lesser posts. He gave general amnesty to all political prisoners, freed the press, agreed to keep power only until elections could be held. Exiles and refugees hoped that the heirs of the Dictator had no dictatorial ideas of their own. They flocked back to El Salvador, determined to give their country a democratic government...
...fall of El Salvador's Martinez opened the second breach in the line of Central American dictators. The first breach was an old one-democratic Costa Rica, where a new President peacefully took office last week. No army puppet, no revolutionist, President Teodoro Picado had won a fair election...
Guatemala's Dictator Jorge Ubico last week had every reason to be nervous about the unrest in neighboring El Salvador (see col. 1). If El Salvador could defy a tyrant, Guatemalans might try the same thing...