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Just look what happens to our big stars when they go to South America." Before the week was out, Matador Bienvenida could point to two examples of just how tough Latin American bullfighting can be. One example was provided by one of Mexico's top matadors, Jorge Aguilar, who was carried to the hospital with a deep horn wound in his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Not-So-Brave Bulls | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...actual death and 4) the re-establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored up and gunned down Jose Aguilar, a chief of the Epinayu (Weasel) tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: The Quaint Men of Guajira | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...from each tribe, dressed in necklaces, dirty shirts and bright loincloths knotted in front, met on the broiling plain. The aggrieved Weasels demanded 4,000 goats for Aguilar's death, plus war reparations. The Blackbirds balked at so costly a fine. Both factions then agreed to stage a man-to-man combat between Murderer Velasquez and a Weasel named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse came out of the fight wounded and sulking, and threatened to commit suicide to distress the Blackbirds. At this impasse, last week the Guajiros appealed to the Venezuelan government to negotiate a peace. Pending arbitration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: The Quaint Men of Guajira | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

NONA LINTON AGUILAR Wilmette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Three of the cleaners started sweeping and dusting along the aisles. Wizened, stoop-shouldered Claudio Aguilar, who works on a neighboring farm, went to work on the pulpit. After a while, he stepped down, dragged over a ladder, and climbed to the pulpit's top. He explained later: "It was dark, but I had a feeling that I saw something in the corner. I put out my hand and felt something-I began to tremble." At Claudio's cries of "I see it! I see it!" the others rushed over to find him holding the greenish-black stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Return of the Virgin | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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