Word: porrista
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...this time Cubans who had felt the clutches of the Porra, who had languished in slimy jails or knew that the Porra had murdered a friend or relative, started a wild manhunt through the streets of Havana to slay and trample every Porrista they could catch. Frenzy grew maddest when Colonel Antonio Jiminez, dread Chief of the Porra, was sighted on the Prado. "There's Jiminez! It's Jiminez, the Porrista! Kill...
...twice thereafter during the day. Disorder still reigned in Havana with soldiers and armed members of the A B C (secret-anti-Machado organization) hunting members of the Porra from house to house, killing them brutally when found. In some instances "mercy" was shown, as to Porrista Carlos Souto: he begged and was permitted to shoot himself. Four police officers were seized, lodged in the Central Police Station. ABC members gave them each a pistol containing one bullet each, told them they might shoot themselves by 3 p. m. or be turned out. For an hour expectant crowds packed...
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