Word: vald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later gangsters fired into the Miramar home of Antonio Valdés Rodriguez, wealthy director of Foreign Commerce, missed him. Then assassins killed the 16-year-old son of Senator and Cabinet Minister Joaquin Martinez Saenz as he drove his father...
Results followed pronto. One Enrique Sanchez del Monte, 47, a wealthy sugar and cattle man, confessed that he had paid thugs $3,000 for the Valdés attempt, $5,000 for the boy's death. Furthermore, he had offered $6,000 for the murder of his beautiful ex-wife Maria who escaped to the U.S. with their two daughters last fortnight. His motive, if true, looked like Balzacian revenge. Valdés and the boy's lawyer-father had won Maria her divorce and custody of the two children...