Word: caicedonia
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...Laureanistas are often called Bluebirds-blue being the Conservative color and bird the local slang for villain. One area where the Bluebirds are on the rampage is the south. Two months ago they hacked 14 Liberal farmers to death and hurled their bodies into the Bache River. Terrorized Caicedonia, 125 miles west of Bogota, is another Bluebird battlefield. A two-street town with a population of only 5,200, it has seen twelve murders in the last six weeks. Twenty others have been killed in the area around Caicedonia...
...Rojas government answered the new violence by ordering troops into Caicedonia, and by replacing the town's entire police force. It named new police chiefs or mayors, many of them army officers, for 38 nearby towns. To the south, Rojas sent a bipartisan commission which will report directly to him. Despite these measures, at week's end four more Liberal farmers were killed (two by beheading) by thugs who shouted, "Down with Rojas Pinilla...
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