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Contestación del
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he saw in their ideology. In his speech on 7 October 1963, López
Arellano claimed, among other things, that "red guerrillas exist in various sectors of Honduran territory". Rodas Alvarado was exiled from the country, sent by airplane to
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Modesto Rodas
Alvarado left his post as President of the National Congress in the hands of Héctor Orlando Gómez Cisneros as he was selected in the party convention as the official presidential candidate for the Liberal Party for the
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Short biography of Doctor
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took the presidency in the coup, fearing that the campesino protests would spread and wanting to halt the infiltration of
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had remarked in a speech that the Armed Forces were the inheritors of "nacionalismo", bringing the military to his side.
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Doctor Modesto Rodas Alvarado Technical Institute in Guayapa, Olancho Department.
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André-Marcel d'. Ans. Honduras: emergencia difícil de una nación, de un estado.
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Doctor Modesto Rodas Alvarado Polyvalent Institute in Ilanga, Colón Department.
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