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era un hecho que la principal división que existía en el gobierno era —¡cosa increíble!— entre los partidarios de la esposa legítima, doña Odilia Palomo, y la amante.

Mucho se criticaría en el futuro a María Cristina por haber frecuentado, cuando vinieron a Guatemala, a dos extranjeras con fama de comunistas: la chilena Virginia Bravo Letelier, que sería luego…

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Under the appointed mainland officials served elected Puerto Rican ones, less powerful but much cannier about local affairs. Chief among these was Luis Muñoz Marín, the leader of the island’s dominant party, who towered over the political scene from the 1940s through the 1960s. John Gunther deemed him “the most important living Puerto Rican.”

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