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The incredibly racist San Francisco man who became dictator of Nicaragua
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William Walker did not have the look of a conqueror.
He was slim with thin, light hair and grey eyes that were a little too close together. His cheekbones were unnaturally high, giving his face a sickly gauntness. Newspapers compared him often to Napoleon, both because of his size and his ambition.
In the summer of 1853, because William Walker was a narcissist and a racist, he decided he wanted to be the president of a country.
He is not particular about locality whether in Lower California, Sonora, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or elsewhere,” the Sacramento Bee wrote, “so that he can only be made President and Dictator of some populated spot on this hemisphere. ....

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