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...take responsibility for all . . . I state forever that the United States of America are betraying their sacred principles of mankind in their continuous subjugation of my people, violating their rights to be a free nation in their barbarous torture of our apostle of independence, Don Pedro Albizu y Campos...
Blood Tie. In Edinburg, Texas, Pedro Martinez was excused from jury duty after he told the assistant district attorney why he would not be willing to vote for the death penalty: "Jose [the defendant] is my cousin...
Before them stood a radio receiver. Spain's arch-conservative Pedro Cardinal Segura had assembled his council to pass judgment on Father Venancio Marcos of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, the "radio priest" who in a few years had built up from a handful of listeners on a single private station to a series of half-hour broadcasts over a twelve-station national network, with an audience of more than 5,000,000. From the loudspeaker came Father Marcos' cheerful voice in one of his weekly "Chats on Religious Orientation...
...Pedro, Calif...
With all his command of water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...