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La señora mayor.
Fishburn and Hughes: "A political organisation formed in 1833 to advance Rosas's Federalist leadership. At first respectable, it soon became Rosas's secret police. Its name, 'ear of corn', was chosen to suggest the values of countrymen as opposed to townsmen. Rosas's enemies claimed that it was más horcas ('more gallows'), and it became a by-word for intimidation, vandalism and brutality. After Rosas's fall, it was abolished and its leaders executed. CF 380: The English translation gives 'Rosas's posses'." (127)