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This year Public Welfare Minister Dr. Gustavo Baz and his wife, acting as godparents, witnessed the marriage of Octogenarian Simón Rocha and his sweetheart of these several decades-enough decades, in fact, to see the birth of 18 children. One of Simón Rocha's grandsons was married at the same time...
...Omar Rocha, a sophomore from Monterrey, Mexico, packed his bags, called a cab, prepared to leave for home...
...base village where they are beloved. They live off the land, sack isolated villages for food and women. Today they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...
...machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None of this solved the bus massacre in Jalisco where Bandit Lauro Rocha is too potent to be seriously bothered...
...truck backed up ... and forced the doors. Everything was seized and destroyed, from lead pencils to printing presses. . . . The mob stormed the building and threw furnishings into the street [and burned them], smashed machinery and turned on water taps on several floors. The offices of Geraldo Rocha, proprietor of A Noite and one of the richest industrialists of Brazil, were entered and the furnishings wrecked. Rocha was not there at the time. Ismael Maia, manager of the paper, however, was subjected to rough treatment...