... Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes . By Rourke Thomas . ( New York : William Morrow & Company , 1941 . Pp. xvi , 320 . $2.75 .) Man of Glory: Simón Bolívar . By Rourke Thomas . ( New York : William Morrow & Company , 1941 . Pp. xi , 385 . $2.75 .) Copyright...

... at the center of the revolt, Major Castro, had not been involved in its outbreak. When he arrived at São Pedro Fort, cheers and shouts of “The tyrant is dead!” broke out among the troops. Several witnesses reported that Castro visibly paled, an indication that things had not gone as planned. Castro took...

...Bernard D. Ansel Martín Güemes: Tyrant or Tool? A Study of the Sources of Power of an Argentine Caudillo . By Haigh Roger M. . Fort Worth , 1968 . Texas Christian University Press . Figures. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 77 . Paper. $3.50 . Copyright 1969...

...J. Fred Rippy Gómez, Tyrant of the Andes . By Rourke Thomas ( New York : William Morrow and Company , 1936 . Pp. xvi , 320 . $2.00 .) Copyright 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 ...

...Rafael Pedemonte Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War: Exiles, Revolutionaries and Tyrants, 1952–1959 . By Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano . St Antony's Series . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii, 113 pp. Cloth, $59.99...

... over the friar, the tyrant over the executioner, the demon over the tyrant, all floundering in a sea of evil darkness!” 10 Fanaticism bred intolerance and ignorance led to crime. There was no progress at all. Furthermore, Montalvo objected to the existence of dictatorship on any basis whatsoever...

... in this book events that she has studied in previous articles, deepening the analysis here. When discussing the events that led to the Peru-Bolivian Confederation's end in 1839, Irurozqui reminds the reader that the rebel's right to topple a tyrant corresponds to the constitutional possibility to depose...

.... During his tenure in office the province repulsed several Spanish attempts at penetration. As a result of his seemingly arbitrary actions, the terms caudillo, despot, and tyrant are frequently used in historical treatments of his career. Martín Güemes was born in Salta in 1785. His father...

... in Bolivia. He does not mention why he left Argentina, but he did get involved in Bolivian intrigues, including politics. There is a strange love affair. True names are cited and President Paz Estenssoro is called a tyrant and dictator. The Bolivian Revolution is severely criticized. Even though the whole...

... a most enjoyable sense of humor. And never has any government in Bolivia’s history (even the most tyrannical) suppressed this type of satire. Even the tyrant Melgarejo had a most refreshing sense of humor. And in my teens I can remember that the high-handed Villarroel government did not dare touch satire...

... (despot or tyrant) and the enmity of assorted vested interests, including the Benedictines, Carmelites, and Jesuits, the câmara of Rio de Janeiro, members of the royal government, the Sády nasty, and the underworld. He died of epilepsy a year after his enemies had removed him from office. Another...

... with many of the insurgent leaders and the revolutionary cause, in discussing this episode, has revealed the following significant bit of information: A second clue relates to a phrase in Point No. 1 of the document: namely, the reference to “the tyrant Venegas, who is becoming a mercantile viceroy...

... of tyrants, the empty and evil rhetoric of demagogues, the rape of the masses” (p. 41). The true worth of Latin culture and society, its ambiente, Thomsen discovers in the individual. In a disjointed and “vaguely chronological” fashion, he presents the stories of Ramón Prado, his partner and “the biggest...

..., unscrupulous tyrant whose assassination was well deserved. This book will be of use only to those who are interested in his biography or are looking for an entry into the most useless book-published contest. ...

... to the prevention rather than to the remedy of evils. Because of these ideas, his liberal enemies pictured him as Don Fruto the tyrant, while conservatives regarded him as the champion of law and order. Judging from the reforms he urged to the Pacto de Chinandega , he also favored effective unionism for Central...

... a past of interdependence, cooperation, solidarity, and harmony, contrary to the theories of individuality and competition” (p. 11). The inference is that precapitalist ruling classes were nothing short of admirable: we are assured that in each of the top “folk” tyrants the humble found “an adviser...

... not praise Gómez as a “democratic Caesar” as did Laureano Vallenilla Lanz nor does he condemn him as a stupid tyrant as have many subsequent historians. Rather, Gómez appears as a fairly capable person who succumbed (perhaps inevitably?) to the manipulation and bribery of the emissaries of the international...

... language.” Both men had known the bitterness of exile, and each had waged a literary battle against the tyrant. Unamuno’s Facundo, his Rosas, had been Primo de Rivera. Both were men of strong passions and contradictions. “Hermanos en la contradicción” is the expression Señor Cúneo employs to refer...

... with the IMF at the time and the nature of the Peruvian military regime. Pion-Berlin himself shows that the nature of repression in the two cases is incomparable. The Peruvian military leaders were neither the committed ideologues nor the ruthless tyrants that their Argentine counterparts were...

... defects, a remarkably vibrant and multilayered Nicaraguan culture survived a dozen Nicaraguan tyrants. The combination of the current military conflict and the ideological imperatives of the Sandinista government confronts Nicaraguan education and cultural life with as great a crisis as they have faced...