Word: alcaraz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of the 27, basket maker Luterio Alcaraz had been no Sinarquista, only a devout Catholic. With his wife he had gone to the square to shout a protest. The pro-Catholic Civic Union was demonstrating against what it considered the fraudulent election of the Government's official P.R.M. (Mexican Revolutionary Party) candidate for mayor. Soldiers, on hand to guarantee the P.R.M. mayor's tenancy in office, opened fire. Luterio fell: So did the young daughter of Pedro Ramirez (see cut) and 25 others...
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