Word: jimenez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original was entertaining the wife of neighbor Nicaragua's President Juan Sacasa over the New Year holidays in high, pleasant San Jose. Her departure was an occasion for a parting gift. One of Costa Rica's three railroads had been electrified and had some obsolete equipment. President Jimenez presented Senora Sacasa with two oil-burning locomotives, used but serviceable, for Nicaragua's under-equipped railroads...
...staged by Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez, commander of the troops which were aquatically held up fortnight ago. To the Naval Junta he gave his word that, if allowed to land his men, he would march them straight to barracks...
...once he was on dry land at Callao, port of Lima, valiant Lieut.-Colonel Jimenez marched straight to the capital, overthrew the Government, conferred by wire with leaders of the revolutionary Government at Arequipa in the South...
Satisfactory terms having been arranged, Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez announced that one Col. David Samanez Ocampo, "President of the Southern Junta," would proceed from Arequipa to Lima and assume the office of President of Peru (the fourth within six months, the third within a week...