Word: vasquez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...
...beloved. They live off the land, sack isolated villages for food and women. Today they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...
...Mexican army promptly went into concerted action. In Guanajuato State they ambushed Ramirez the Rabbit, killed him and 21 of his men. They decapitated him and' paraded his head on a staff through the villages he had terrorized. In Durango State, Francisco Vasquez, tougher and smarter than the Rabbit, rode into an ambush but escaped alive. He left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None...
...Last fortnight Exile Angel Morales, Dominican Minister to the U. S. under ex-President Horacio Vasquez (1924-30), hired a bodyguard of two, after an assassin entered his apartment, found his secretary shaving, mistook his lathered face for Morales' and killed...
...Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia...