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Slowly but surely, Colombians are writing an end to la violencia, which began in 1948 as a political war between the Conservative and Liberal parties, continued as degenerate terrorism long after the leaders made peace, and now has claimed 200,000 lives in the country's backlands. In March...
223 Lives. No one knows why Cruz became a bandit; he came from a peaceful peasant family in the department of Tolima, started out as a hardworking laborer, then suddenly turned up three years ago as Sangre Negra. On March 20, 1961, he burned a hacienda and chopped three men...
In the end it was Sangre Negra's own brother, Felipe, 32, who did him in. Hearing that his outlaw kin was coming to kill him, or so he said, Felipe went to the police in the small town of El Cairo, then joined the posse sent to track...
Cortege of Survivors. A helicopter carried the body to army headquarters at Ibagué, where 25,000 people passed by the litter to stare and make sure that Sangre Negra was really dead. The corpse was then helicoptered to four other mountain towns for display. At last, he was buried...
∙THE SANTA FE OPERA (June 26-Aug. 24) commands a magnificent site in the foothills of New Mexico's dramatic Sangre de Cristo mountain range. When General Director John Crosby, 36, began the venture in 1957, his Eastern friends told him he was dizzy from the altitude. The...