Word: vibora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Jose Ignacio de Rivero y Alonso ("Pepin"), 49, editor and publisher of Cuba's oldest (1832) and most famous newspaper, the Havana Diario de la Marina; after long illness; in Vibora, Cuba. Somber, handsome Rivero, although a reactionary himself, in 1930 bitterly criticized the bloody-reactionary Machado regime, dodged its conspiracy and sedition charges by visiting the U.S. In 1934 he was machine-gunned by would-be assassins for forming the nationalistic afirmación Nacional party. In 1936 he blasted the Spanish loyalists, in 1941 was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize in journalism by Columbia...
Meantime another old rebel, who some 40 years ago swore that he would never again set foot on U.S. soil, disregarded MacArthur's still-flying flag by setting foot in the Philippines. Old General Artemio Ricarte y Vibora drove proudly about Manila in a sleek limousine, with a spluttering escort of Jap motorcycle guards...
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