Packet 15: Tossup 4

A man with this surname legendarily died by disobeying orders to ride into battle, where his black suit on a white horse made him an easy target. A man with this surname inspired the name of a group whose members included a man nicknamed “Red Jesus” and Schafik Hándal. A man with this surname led a protest opposed by the “Fourteen Families” that was spurred by collapsing coffee prices. A man with this surname wrote the Manifesto of (*) Montecristi and created the newspaper Patria. A revolutionary with this surname was executed amid a 1932 massacre of communists and indigenous people called La Matanza and inspired the name of the FMLN in his native El (-5[1])Salvador. An ally of Máximo (10[1])Gómez with this surname died at (0[1])the Battle of Dos Ríos and wrote the essay Nuestra América. For 10 points, a Cuban revolutionary with what surname wrote “Guantanamera.” ■END■

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