Word: echandia
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When the ensuing siege was over more than 24 hours later, some 100 people had been killed. Among them were Chief Justice Alfonso Reyes Echandia and ten other judges, almost half of the country's Supreme Court. All of the guerrillas, including their leader, Luis Otero, perished. The block-long Palace of Justice was a smoldering ruin...
...Orleans meeting of the Inter-American Press Association last week, Barranquilla Editor Julian Devis Echandia, defending Rojas' censorship on the ground that Colombia is "in a state of war," said that the six-year death toll in his country's civil war has now reached...
Whisky & Calm. Colombia's Liberals, still claiming that Gómez' election was illegal, talked and gestured but did nothing. Ex-President Alfonso López and ex-Candidate Darío Echandia merely left Bogota for the inauguration weekend. Liberal newspapers ignored all news of the inauguration, of President Pérez and President-elect...
Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
...minor Liberal politicians died where they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...