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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knives in the Streets. Within hours, the electoral jury amiably announced that Arnulfo had really won in 1948 after all and should be President now. Next day Arnulfo named two of the jury to his cabinet. The Assembly approved his election. Arnulfistas roamed the capital, shouting, singing, smashing up Liberal Party headquarters, beating and knifing Liberals caught in the streets. Three ex-Presidents, including Chanis, hastily checked in at the Canal Zone's Hotel Tivoli, so as to avoid checking in at Panama City's model jail...
...general strike rolled on. Arias, declaring himself opposed to a "police state," let it be known that he had in his pocket the signed resignations of Police Chief Remón and his two principal aides. But for the moment wily Arnulfo delayed taking action. After all, unpopular as Remón had become, he still commanded 2,400 well-trained police, the only armed force in the republic; any doublecross of him would have to be expert-and permanent...
Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
...Two minor Liberal politicians died where they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...
...dusty, backlands Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...