Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south of Santiago, turned the sleepy farming province into a sort of Latin New Hampshire. Campaigning as if it were the real thing were the three principal presidential candidates: Julio Durán of the right-wing Democratic Front, the coalition of President Jorge Alessandri (who cannot succeed himself); Salvador Allende of the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front; and Eduardo Frei of the left-of-center Christian Democrats. In 1958 Allende came breathtakingly close to becoming the first avowed far-leftist to be elected President in Latin America. In Curicó, Allende's candidate for Congress won with...
...Having observed first hand and worked with Mr. Mann in El Salvador when he served as Ambassador to that Central American country, I can assure you he is widely respected and admired by Latin Americans of all walks of life, as is his lovely wife Nancy...
...Salvador has a good democratic-reformist government, is prospering, gets powerful U.S. support...
Mann was offered the ambassador's post in Guatemala but turned it down because "I didn't feel I was really qualified by age or service experience." He went instead as deputy chief of mission to Guatemala, a year later was named ambassador to El Salvador, and in 1957 returned to Washington to serve with Douglas Dillon, then Ike's Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs...
...halfback on Laredo High's unbeaten 1927 football team, he called signals in both English and Spanish. Giving up practice as what he calls "a Texas country lawyer" in 1943, he joined the State Department, serving over the years mostly in Latin American posts (Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador) or dealing with Latin American affairs in Washington. The jobs took a personal toll: in 1947, when he was Second Secretary in Caracas, Venezuela, his first son swallowed some gaily colored fireworks, thinking they were candy, and died of phosphorous poisoning. In Mexico City Mann suffered from chronic altitude sickness...