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EL SABOR DE LO HEROICO
In 1913 the presidente of El Salvador, Manuel Enrique Araujo, was killed with a machete by a group of uneducated country farmers who didn't entirely realise who they were killing. Together with them, an ex-army officer is also arrested, who shot and wounded Presidente Araujo during the bloody crime that took place in a park in the centre of the capital. The farmers were executed without trial by firing squad ten days after the assassination and the ex-army officer was found dead in his cell the next morning, killed with his own gun. In the weeks that follow rumours abound about who the real murderers were. Maybe a conspiracy by the country's wealthy families (a prosperous coffee grower himself, Araujo raised taxes on coffee farming to the anger of other farmers), jealous husbands...