Word: chacarita
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They had to pick the twelve triple-combination locks that secured the coffin, but somehow the grave robbers at Buenos Aires' Chacarita Cemetery managed the task. Their take: a ceremonial saber and the hands of Juan Peron, who was perhaps Argentina's most revered President. After the break-in was discovered two weeks ago on the 13th anniversary of Peron's death, a group called "Hermes IAI and the 13" claimed responsibility for the theft and demanded $8 million in return for the severed parts. If the ransom was not met by this week, the group threatened, Peron's hands...
...Buenos Aires' Chacarita Cemetery 30 years ago Don Tomas set up business as a professional valedictorian of the dead. Of his red-eyed clients he asked only the name, nationality and business of the deceased. Then he would step to the head of the newly turned grave and deliver eulogies of any desired length. He had practiced, he boasted, ten years to give his voice the correct hollowness of tone. When funeral fashions changed, and speeches gave way to flowers, Don Tomas tried vainly to meet the competition. He pared his rates four times. He threw in six Latin...
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