Word: carrera
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...whose legions of fanatic peasants finally captured Morazán after 18 turbulent years of early federation was an illiterate swineherd named Rafael Carrera. He later became known as "General Cholera Morbus," because he claimed that those opposing him spawned a cholera plague by poisoning wells. His support came from ignorant Indians, reactionary churchmen and landowners, minor despots and foreign governments stirring up trouble as a normal accompaniment to 19th-Century colonial policy...
Still plagued by poverty, reaction, disease, despotism and ignorance, the five republics have more often emulated Carrera than Morazán; but they have not forgotten Morazán's dream of La Gran Patria Centroamericana. This week, on the centenary of Morazán's death, their representatives were scheduled to converge on San José to consider, warily and with varying degrees of enthusiasm, the latest proposal to unite as one nation...
...centerpiece of a display in a bookstore window on Carrera Séptima was that issue of En Guardia whose cover was a color photo of F.D.R. against a background of the Stars & Stripes. The legend: "No se venden; ni la revista ni F.D.R." ("Not for sale; neither the magazine nor F.D.R...