Word: avellanada
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...flag. Watching crowds sang the national anthem as the procession moved toward the Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Lima's largest (7,000 students) public high school. As the gates of the school chapel swung open, a bugler sounded taps. A senior spoke briefly. Heriberto Avellanada Beltrán, he said, had died for liberty...
...Protest. Avellanada's death marked the end of a tumultuous week at the school. The student body, mostly boys of poorer families, has long been politically conscious, took part in the turbulence from which APRA rose a quarter-century ago. Despite a recent law banishing politics from schools, it is still a bastion of Aprista influence...
...joined in the chorus: "We are free and shall be always." The cops started to clear the streets. Stones flew at them. Swinging sabers and tossing tear gas, the mounted police charged. After a few blocks they dismounted and fired into the retreating crowd. Fifteen-year-old Sophomore Heriberto Avellanada was dead with a bullet in his heart, and 19 others, including a few adults, were wounded...
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