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| 1927 |
| | | Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Plutarco Calles establishes the National Revolutionary Party that will hold power in Mexico, under different names, for the rest of the century | |
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| 1933 |
| | | 19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Anastasio Somoza, commander of the National Guard, organizes a coup in Nicaragua | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Anastasio Somoza makes himself president of Nicaragua, beginning four decades of brutal rule by his family | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Mexico, newly rich from oil, nationalizes the holdings of the foreign oil companies | |
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| 1940 |
| | | An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City | |
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| 1944 |
| | | An uprising in Guatemala brings in a revolutionary junta and a left-wing programme of reform | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The US Congress passes a National Security Act, setting up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | |
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