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...lined up 17 passengers, slaughtered them all. He kidnaped children, carried off women to be raped and murdered, boldly shot it out with the army. Last September, while President Guillermo León Valencia was decorating army officers at Armero in Tolima, Sangre Negra contemptuously sacked a nearby town, Totarito, adding 28 more deaths to the list. Though there is no accurate record, authorities place the blood of 223 on his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Death of Black Blood | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...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 in an unmarked grave. Soldiers acted as pallbearers, and the survivors of the Totarito massacre marched behind in a bitter cortege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Death of Black Blood | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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