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Word: curiel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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...with inferior authorities," President Luis Echeverria Alvarez last week announced the resignation of the country's second most powerful figure: Mexico City Mayor Alfonso Martinez Dominguez, the former boss of Mexico's long-dominant Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). The capital's police chief, Colonel Rogelio Flores Curiel, also resigned. The resignations followed Echeverría's announcement that the city government would be investigated. The Falcons are believed to have been groomed at city expense as a secret army to embarrass and thwart Echeverria's reformist policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Showing Them Who's Boss | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

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