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ROSAMARIA VALERIANO FLORES, a Honduran who was beaten while passing through a demonstration in Tegucigalpa held in support of Manuel Zelaya, the country's ousted President...
...disap pointing year of partnership, when car output was barely half of his overly optimistic goal of 92,000, Chrysler invested another $20.5 million to save the enterprise from caving in. In 1967, Chrysler raised its interest in the company to 77%. Barreiros was still president-and his brothers Valeriano, Graciliano and Celso were all members of the management group-but his family had only a minority voice. Unmistakably, Chrysler then started running the company through its own efficiency-minded men, who were much less sensitive than Barreiros to the traditional Spanish way of doing business through friends and connections...
...Ambassador to Cuba, visited Havana's Laurel Ditch, the Spanish execution ground, and wrote: "Clots of dark human blood, as we slipped on it, clung to our feet like glue. In the wall, a thousand ghastly bullet holes." Spain's efficient, Prussian-descended General Valeriano ("The Butcher") Weyler, the elegant Marquis of Tenerife, decreed that the noncombatants be rounded up into huge concentration camps. In Havana province alone, 50,000 prisoners starved to death. After the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana harbor, the U.S. outcry brought a declaration of war, sent the Marines and Teddy Roosevelt...
Died. Don Valeriano ("Butcher") Weyler y Nicolau, Captain-General of the Spanish Army, Duque de Rubi y Grande de Espana, 92; of infirmities resulting from a fall from his horse last month; in Madrid. His life was spent in the army-sent to Cuba in 1896, he attempted ruthlessly to suppress the rebellion, succeeded only in intensifying discontent. He was recalled and did not actively participate in the Spanish-American War. Twice minister of war, he helped suppress Catalan, Basque, Carlist uprisings. He was a fierce enemy of the late Primo de Rivera; some said he lived until 92 just...
...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...