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...first American ever to be sentenced to death by a Mexican court. The crime for which he was condemned to face a firing squad occurred on the night of Oct. 12, 1959, after Simmons entered Mexico from Laredo, Texas, about 45 minutes behind a Monterrey dentist named Raúl Pérez Villagómez. Roughly 43 miles south of Laredo, the dentist's car broke down. Leaving his younger brother and two sisters behind, Villagómez went for help. When he got back to his car, his brother and one sister were dead, riddled with...
...concession is now held by W. R. Grace & Co. and Sinclair Oil, and the field operator is Standard Oil of New Jersey. None of these companies deals directly with Phillips, but he is believed to be drawing from $100,000 to $200,000 annually from royalties on the Ra-guba well, which is producing 95,000 bbl. daily...
...Latin America, the name is so common that no one blinks when U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Raúl Castro, 50, introduces himself. But in the U.S., the handle can be a headache, particularly in places like Miami, hotbed of militant Cuban exiles, where the name of Fidel's kid brother and Defense Minister is anathema. "I was in Miami not long ago," the Mexican-born U.S. career diplomat told the Nucleus Club in Phoenix, "and 20 minutes after I checked into a hotel, the word got around that Raúl Castro was in town...
Last week Raúl Roa, Cuba's Foreign Minister, revealed what the real trouble was: by some unexplained shift, the Cubans suddenly pretended that it was false to assume that the fate of the Americans had even been discussed. The Americans would eventually be permitted to leave, allowed Roa, but only after all the Cubans who had a "right" to leave had done...
Host was Colombia's newly inaugurated President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, who, with Frei, was joined by Venezuela's President Raúl Leoni, Ecuador's former President Galo Plaza Lasso, who substituted for Ecuador's Interim President Clemente Yerovi Indaburu, and Peru's former Premier Fernando Schwalb, who was filling in for President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Among the balls, banquets and other ceremonial gatherings, the five met to discuss mutual economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled...