Word: armero
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When Alberto Nunez returned to the remains of his home near the devastated town of Armero last week, he was startled to see smoke curling from the earthen hut of one of his neighbors, Maria Rosa Elvira Echeverry, 66. A closer look revealed a miracle. Twenty-four days after mudslides triggered by the volcanic eruption of Nevado del Ruiz had laid waste to the town and killed 23,000 people, there was Echeverry, safe and relatively sound, in her partially mud-covered house. She had survived on a diet of cracked barley, raw sugar and rice...
...policemen. Three months after that, Sangre Negra halted a bus, lined up 17 passengers, slaughtered them all. He kidnaped children, carried off women to be raped and murdered, boldly shot it out with the army. Last September, while President Guillermo León Valencia was decorating army officers at Armero in Tolima, Sangre Negra contemptuously sacked a nearby town, Totarito, adding 28 more deaths to the list. Though there is no accurate record, authorities place the blood of 223 on his hands...