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Word: viejo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most fantastic of the week's stories concerned Costa Rica, the brave little Central American democracy whose teachers outnumber its soldiers. A shadowy Costa Rican politician known only as El Viejo (the Old One) was said to have assembled 1,000 men among the volcanoes of El Salvador, and equipped his force with rifles, machine guns, light field pieces, two light bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Guns Across the Caribbean | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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