Word: negra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Desquite" ("Revenge"), one of the most notorious of the bandit leaders; in the past 15 months they have erased three other bandits responsible for 1,100 murders among them. Last week the most vicious killer still at large met his death. He was Jacinto Cruz Usma, 31, alias "Sangre Negra," or "Black Blood," and regarded by the government as Public Enemy...
...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...
...Sangre Negra's own brother, Felipe, 32, who did him in. Hearing that his outlaw kin was coming to kill him, or so he said, Felipe went to the police in the small town of El Cairo, then joined the posse sent to track his brother down. They found Sangre Negra and three of his men terrorizing a farm family a short way out of town. In a blazing 25-minute gunfight, one of the bandits was killed. But when the posse rushed the farmhouse, Sangre Negra and the others were gone. Two days later reinforcements killed...
Cortege of Survivors. A helicopter carried the body to army headquarters at Ibagué, where 25,000 people passed by the litter to stare and make sure that Sangre Negra was really dead. The corpse was then helicoptered to four other mountain towns for display. At last, he was buried in an unmarked grave. Soldiers acted as pallbearers, and the survivors of the Totarito massacre marched behind in a bitter cortege...