Word: baronies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testimony was a letter lifted from the Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana: "Our friend Villaboy gave me a check for $4,000. Following instructions of the President [i.e., Batista], I endorsed the check to Senor Aldo Baroni...
...Mexico, there was little reason for Columnist Baroni to be deeply disturbed by the exposure. He was following an established custom, a journalistic practice common in many places in Latin America. Many a Mexican newsman is for sale; a chief duty of government press officers is to disburse igualas (fees) to reporters...
...flashing. There bodies were sectioned off beneath white sheets by aproximate age and sex. "Maffiola?" a hite-coated attendant called out. "The Maffiola family?" Another attendant died: "Sarno? Anyone here for Sarno?" A deputy coroner told a registrar: "Better leave room for 100 names." The names: Michele Altobell . . . Karen Baroni . . . David Biscan . . . Philip Tampone . . . Christine Vitacco . . . Wayne Wisz. The toll: 91 dead-53 girls, 35 boys, three nuns-and more than 100 injured...