Word: tyrants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unarmed, national strike drove President Jorge Ubico, Tyrant of Guatemala, from office last week...
Hardly had TIME'S report on Guatemala's tyranny appeared last week than a popular movement to overthrow Guatemala's tyrant began. Striking students p raded the streets of Guatemala City, defied the martial law imposed by Dictator Jorge Ubico (TIME, June 26). Bystanders and women trailed along, trembling at first, then gaining courage. The tyrant's police and soldiers were ready. They routed the unarmed paraders with tear gas and bullets, killed an undisclosed number. The seething city settled down to whispering quiet...
...pleases us, as Central Americans, to convey to you our heartfelt gratitude for your true evidence of constructive Americanism by showing the real facts about the abominable dictatorships that we have in our own American backyard. Your recent attitude (TIME, May 15) toward the ferocious methods of the Salvadorean tyrant, Martinez, helped immensely to awaken the patriotic spirit of the Salvadorean people enabling them to regain their freedom and the sacred right to decent living. The downfall of Dictator Martinez represents the first democratic victory of the United Nations in American territory...
While Dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez was fighting the "civil disobedience" of his people (TIME, May 22), the death of a U.S. boy provided the final push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...
...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...