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Honduras is ruled by massive President Tiburcio Carias, whose gorilla-like arms in their prime could break a rifle in two. He started as a revolutionist in 1892, attained the presidency in 1933. Hated by his people, he is on excellent terms with the U.S. fruit companies which dominate the economy of his country. Up to now he has quelled every revolt...
...President General Maximiliano Hernàndez Martinez took office in 1931 after an Army revolt had deposed President Arturo Araujo. Refused recognition by the U. S., he resigned in 1934, ran for the Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza took office in 1937 and promptly revamped the constitution. By resigning the Presidency (after appointing himself Acting President during...
...supreme chief of the Order of the Quetzal, President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala awarded the Order's Grand Cross to King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Premier Benito Mussolini, Presidents Albert Lebrun of France, Lin Sen of China, Maxmiliano Martinez of El Salvador, Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras, Leon Cortes of Costa Rica, Alfonso Lopez of Colombia, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Stenio Vincent of Haiti "for personal merits and friendship to Guatemala...
...Presidential Palace at Tegucigalpa, the pretty, mountain-rimmed capital of Honduras, chambermaids were busy last week dusting wicker chairs and a gold telephone, shaking out blankets, putting clean sheets on beds. On Feb. 1, barring further violence, Honduras will have a new President - General Tiburcio Carias Andino, burly, mustachioed farmer and reformed hotblood. President Vicente Mejia Colindres will retire to the bawdy seaport of Puerto Cortes, where he expects to practice medicine and raise cattle from a stock of three blooded cows impregnated by three blooded bulls presented to him by United Fruit Co. after the election last October...
...March, President Rafael Lopez Gutierrez died. His term of office had expired on Feb. 1, but he had kept himself in office by establishing a dictatorship. Immediately after the President's demise, Generals Arias and Bueso seized power and constituted themselves dictators (TIME, Mar. 31). Thereupon Generals Tiburcio Carias and Gregorio Ferrera joined forces, wacked the dictators...