Crossword-Solution: JEFES 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Notable among them were the local officials, called jefes politicos, whose control of the police force enabled them to indulge in practices of intimidation and extortion which ultimately became unendurable.

What the revolutionists demanded in substance was the retirement of the President, Vice President, and Cabinet; a return to the principle of no reelection to the chief magistracy; a guarantee of fair elections at all times; the choice of capable, honest, and impartial judges, jefes politicos, and other officials; and, in particular, a series of agrarian and industrial reforms which would break up the great estates, create peasant proprietorships, and better the conditions of the working classes.

When I had put him in his place again, he said he was glad I spoke Spanish, for so many "jefes" had pulled his hair and ears and slapped him in the face because he did not understand their "strange talk." He did not mention this in any spirit of complaint, but merely as a curious fact and one of the many visitations fate sees fit to send those of her children unluckily born peons.

Vea usted a lo que está reducida mi hostilidad a la señora." "Verdad es que yo tengo el apoyo de los jefes militares; pero lo utilizo tan sólo para no ser insultado o maltratado [25] por esta gente implacable.

From the governors, I received letters of a more vigorous character to the _jefes_ of the districts to be visited.