Carías Andino

[ kah-ree-ahs ahn-dee-naw ]

noun

1. Ti·bur·cio [tee-, voor, -syaw], 1876–1968, Honduran lawyer, soldier, and statesman: president 1933–49.

Example Sentences

The Sounders are still set for face CD Olimpia on Feb. 20, but the match will now be at Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano in Pan Pedro Sula instead of the previously scheduled Estadio Riburcio Carias Andino in Tegucigalpa.

From Seattle Times

Ten years before, his uncle, Dictator-President Tiburcio Carias Andino, had abolished sport teams and clubs in Honduras as possible blinds for political conspiracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Democratic ferment also bubbled in Honduras last week, where Gargantuan, 69-year-old Tiburcio Carias Andino, Dictator-President since 1933, raised the state of siege prevailing almost from the day he took office.

From Time Magazine Archive

Honduras, stronghold of United Fruit Co., is run by President General Tiburcio Carias Andino, a 300-lb. despot whose banquet halls are protected by machine guns placed behind potted palms.

From Time Magazine Archive