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Word: convencion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

There had certainly been a rash of leftist violence to point to. Led by a onetime agronomy student and longtime Communist named Hugo Blanco, peasants in the Convencion valley, near Cuzco, took up arms nine months ago; the government has yet to catch up with him. Communist-organized trade unionists and students have staged riots, and Red agitators work to turn relatively peaceful strikes into bloody free-for-alls. Striking miners recently burned and sacked a lead and zinc complex belonging to the U.S.-owned Cerro de Pasco Corp., causing $4,000,000 damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Roundup of the Left | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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