Word: soldado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closer scrutiny, the fight judges noted fresh blood on one bull even as he "charged" into the ring. Investigation revealed that handlers of the cowardly toreros had softened up the bull by stabbing it in the kidneys. Set down with a $230 fine were Bullfighters Paquito Gorraez and El Soldado Segundo. In Spain they would have been hustled to the calaboose...
Mexicans cannot deeply love a politician who was not a soldier in some revolution. Avila Camacho is primarily an Army man and went off to his first revolution when he was 17, but he is a very special kind of soldier-so special that his enemies nicknamed him El Soldado Desconocido, the unknown soldier. His specialty was persuasion. Instead of meeting rebels in frontal conflict, he would take an airplane, fly straight to their camp, sit them down on a log and pacify them with sympathetic conversation and promises-which, surprisingly enough for a Mexican general, he kept...
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