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...country's Liberals and Conservatives. But catching Sure Shot is no sure thing. Reared in poverty and squalor, he drifted into a Communist guerrilla band in the early 1950s. By 1960 he had his own gang, and moved his family and followers onto a 10,000-acre hacienda near the foot of snow-topped Mount Huila-after killing the hacienda's owner. From his new home Tiro Fijo began taking over all neighboring haciendas, establishing Communist cells throughout the area, indoctrinating peasants, levying a monthly head tax and collecting up to 30% of farmers' profits. His bandit...
Flitting through the thickly wooded mountainsides, Tiro Fijo's men fought half a dozen bitter skirmishes. But in the deadly game of hide-and-seek, the guerrilla-wise soldiers came out on top, pressed steadily on toward Tiro Fijo's hacienda headquarters. Early one morning last week, a fleet of helicopters airlifted 170 crack troops into position surrounding the hacienda. The desperate Communists opened fire from underbrush and foxholes. In the three-hour fight, they wounded only one soldier; finally Tiro Fijo put the hacienda to torch and retreated into the mountains. That night his men ambushed...
...Cruz take in a cruel, gaudy life that spans the Revolution. He remembers himself as a barefoot boy in Veracruz blasting the face off a frock-coated oppressor with a shotgun; as a fugitive in Sonora; as a liberator on horseback defeating the federal artillery. He takes a hacienda for the people and the haciendado's daughter for himself. He becomes a general, begins to enrich himself. The betrayals are multiple, and by the time Fuentes lets his old renegade die, impotent for all his mines, hotels, real estate and 15 million Yankee dollars in European banks...
...Lives. No one knows why Cruz became a bandit; he came from a peaceful peasant family in the department of Tolima, started out as a hardworking laborer, then suddenly turned up three years ago as Sangre Negra. On March 20, 1961, he burned a hacienda and chopped three men to ribbons with a machete. Seven months later, he and his gang ambushed two police trucks, killing eight policemen. Three months after that, Sangre Negra halted a bus, lined up 17 passengers, slaughtered them all. He kidnaped children, carried off women to be raped and murdered, boldly shot it out with...
...A.F.T. is still a small, poor organization. Other unions boast lavish headquarters in Hoffa Hacienda style; the A.F.T. makes do with an ancient brownstone in Chicago, where it was born 47 years ago. It gets only $650,000 a year in dues, and its paid staff totals 25, including President Carl J. Megel, 63, a mild if tough-talking former high school science teacher and athletic coach. A.F.T. has 450 locals, including 32 at college level, but only about 50 are nerved to act like labor unions and clinch collective bargaining agreements...