Word: eguino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howling and shouting, the mob boiled down La Paz' cobbled streets to the jail. There they broke in, seized Jorge Eguino and José Escobar, the Villarroel police chiefs held since July for trial. These were the men who had admitted directing the massacre of scores of oppositionist leaders at Oruro in November 1944. Both were dragged twelve blocks to the plaza's lampposts. Escobar was probably dead before he got there, but they hanged him anyway...
...what happened thereafter a TIME correspondent cabled an eyewitness account: "Eguino at this very moment is making a statement in front of a lamppost while the mob is shouting, urging that he be hanged. . . . From about a hundred yards we watch helplessly what is happening. There is a priest beside Eguino. . . . Right now Eguino was killed with two shots and hanged. He drank a bottle of Coca-Cola just before he died." That night, while the bodies were still hanging, there was a sudden flash of lightning. All city lights went out for ten or 15 seconds. In the frightened...
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