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...What's more, each hunter spends $30 a day, and to egg him on, the local innkeepers and Chambers of Commerce provide "dove festivals" in every little town. There are entertainments,*free dances, trapshooting contests, and the various across-the-border delights of Mexicali, including a "Valencia" pigeon shoot, in which a thrower hurls a live bird into the air while the hunter, as though skeet-shooting, draws a quick bead and fires; the bird wins if it can make it out of a marked circle...
...lives. What began in 1948 as partisan warfare between Liberals and Conservatives has degenerated over the years into banditry and blood lust virtually devoid of any political meaning. The senseless slaughter goes on although the Liberal and Conservative parties agreed to a truce in 1957. President Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative, has pressed the search for known bandits; but the campaign to hunt them down appears to make some bandit chieftains all the more savage. Until the roadside massacre, Aranguren usually released his robbery victims, but after slaughtering the 42 men, he gave the survivors an ominous warning to carry...
...Paris, the old-fashioned bonnes are few and far between. Taking their place are hordes of Spaniards, who are streaming across the border with dilapidated luggage in dilapidated buses from Valencia and Alicante, Seville, Extremadura, and the poorer Castilian provinces, lured by wages that are roughly seven times what they are in Spain...
...detective in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. But he was also a member of the Spanish Communist Party, and his professional police training soon landed him a key job in the Red apparatus. He became chief of "criminal investigations" for Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona, ferreting out supporters of Francisco Franco. Part of Grimau's job was to serve on kangaroo courts, called Chekas (after the onetime initials of the Soviet secret police), which ordered dozens of summary death sentences during the brutal three-year...
Carnival in Rio is the wildest, the biggest, the craziest mass blast in the world. There are no other contenders, say the cariocas. New Orleans' Mardi Gras? That is for the tourists. The Riviera? Fine, if you like floats. Valencia? Nice fireworks and bullfights. Fasching? Mostly indoors-besides, those Germans get conscience stricken and go home at dawn...