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...cocktail exploded, instantly enveloping the building in flames. Witnesses claimed that the police did nothing to help the more than 40 people in the embassy. As a result, almost all the campesinos, the two Guatemalan dignitaries and two embassy staffers were burned alive. The Spanish Ambassador and one campesino, Gregoria Yuga Xona, managed to escape. The next day Xona was kidnaped from his hospital bed by a group of unknown armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Outright Murder | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...stand in almost every plaza. In 1880 his body was brought back from France, where he had gone in bitter disillusionment over political wrangling, and entombed in Buenos Aires Cathedral. From Spain last week, in two finely worked caskets, came the bones of his father & mother, Juan and Gregoria Matorras de San Martín, who had lived briefly in Argentina, then had gone home to Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: In a Son's Name | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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