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Word: lecumberri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those are the words of a slim, quiet-spoken American who is an inmate of Mexico City's aging Lecumberri Prison. Two years ago, he was a graduate student (in international commerce) at San Francisco State College. Now, at 25, he is serving a seven-year term for smuggling drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: A Tragic Trail's End for the Yankee Mules | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...Heberto Castillo, an engineering professor at UNAM who organized the teacher faction which supported the students in 1968, and by Cervantes Cabeza de Vaca, one of the most charismatic student leaders. Castillo and other long experienced radicals spent two years in jail after the 1968 movement. While in Lecumberri prison (the same prison where Hyland is now staying) they greatly influenced student leaders such as Cabeza de Vaca who were also there...

Author: By Robert J. Hildreth, | Title: Mexico's Students: One Step in Front of The Tanks | 11/3/1971 | See Source »

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