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...massacre was unmistakably the work of a bandit gang led by William Aranguren, nicknamed Desquite (Revenge). A onetime army private who flunked out of military police school, Aranguren wears an army captain's uniform, plans his attacks like grand military campaigns. To help assure his getaway after the slaughter, Aranguren had his men cut telephone lines to surrounding towns...
Last week 2,000 soldiers and policemen, aided by air force helicopters, were searching for the Aranguren gang. A detachment of troops caught up with the bandits one evening, but after an hour-long exchange of gunfire, darkness fell and the gang escaped. At week's end Aranguren was still at large, although authorities had offered rewards totaling 130,000 pesos ($13,000) for information leading to his capture...
...Aranguren massacre was one of the bloodiest in Colombia's 15-year agony of backlands violence, which has cost well over 200,000 lives. What began in 1948 as partisan warfare between Liberals and Conservatives has degenerated over the years into banditry and blood lust virtually devoid of any political meaning. The senseless slaughter goes on although the Liberal and Conservative parties agreed to a truce in 1957. President Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative, has pressed the search for known bandits; but the campaign to hunt them down appears to make some bandit chieftains all the more savage. Until...
Died. José Aranguren, onetime Republican Commander of Barcelona's Civil Guard, the brave Colonel Ximenes of André Malraux' novel, Man's Hope; before one of Franco's firing squads; in Barcelona...