Word: policlinica
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...Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas spoke of "this resurrection that renews our hope that sooner or later our people too will be revived." At that very hour, a recently elected member of the new constituent assembly, David Joaquín Quinteros, 42, a father of five, died at the Policlinica Hospital a mile away. Quinteros, a member of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), had been abducted the night before as he left a restaurant. Two hours later, he was found in a garbage dump with bullets in his arms, back and skull. He lived for another twelve hours...
...days after the move to the new site, 200 of Toro's followers attacked and occupied an adjacent bungalow that the police had built as their local headquarters. The crowd wanted it used as a clinic instead, and shouted: "Policlinica si, carabinero no" (Hospital yes, police no). Four hours later, the police returned with reinforcements, and after a barrage of tear gas and a volley of shots recaptured their headquarters. But they refused to pursue their challengers into the commune, even though at least six of its members had been accused of holding up banks. Toro him self, charged...
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