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Tydings could sponsor a bill allowing Puerto Rico to elect her own governor, and Riggs could ensure that Albizu got the job. In exchange, Albizu would back down and let Riggs take care of the strike. If Albizu refused the deal, Riggs would take the offer to Muñoz Marín. Albizu rose slowly, thanked Riggs for lunch, and told him Puerto Rico was not
... See moreNelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Carlos Iván Degregori,
Umberto Jara • ABIMAEL: El sendero del terror (Spanish Edition)
Riggs had just come from Nicaragua, where he’d been advising a budding dictator named Anastasio Somoza, who, one month later, on February 21, 1934, would assassinate Augusto Sandino.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
PORTER v. BOWEN, Opinion of the Court
Trinidad Oliva era un hombre que picaba alto. Se sentía injustamente postergado por el gobierno. Había estado preso en tiempos de Jacobo Árbenz por conspirar contra el régimen y no tenía la menor simpatía por Castillo Armas, de modo que podía ser una pieza clave para el proyecto.
Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
Árbenz nunca habló tanto como en aquellas discusiones públicas en el Palacio de Gobierno, en abril de 1952. Quienes lo conocían de cerca y sabían de su manera de ser tan reservada, su acostumbrado mutismo, se asombraban de verlo defender con tanto brío su proyecto, explicando que se expropiarían sólo las tierras ociosas de los grandes propietarios
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Oscar Collazo received a death sentence (later commuted to life in prison). Back on the island, Luis Muñoz Marín assured the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover that he’d do everything in his power to eradicate the “lawless lunatics.” His police rounded up more than a thousand purported nationalists and tried them on various charges for violating the Gag Law.
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