Round 500: 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 Salvador. An ally of Máximo Gómez with this surname died at 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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