Word: mariela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire. With crisp military precision, they then cut communication lines, looted the government Agrarian Bank of $5,300, snatched the cashbox from the local brewery, and stole arms and ammunition from police headquarters. One of the leaders was a pretty blonde girl of about 19 who was called Comrade Mariela. After two hours, the invaders vanished into the hills, but not before rounding up the populace for a Communist harangue and passing out manifestos calling for a people's revolution...
...call from a woman who warned that the Simacota raid was the first phase of "Operación Esperanza"-Operation Hope. "Soon you will have another surprise," she said. Figuring one such surprise was enough, President Valencia ordered helicopter-equipped anti-guerrilla troops into the hills to hunt down Mariela and her marauders...