Word: villanueva
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...many of the vigilantes are simply local men pushed too far by the gang- bangers' reign of terror. Last Spring in Villanueva, a shantytown on the edge of San Pedro Sula, homeboys, high on crack, raped and killed a young teenage girl and her mother, hacking their breasts off. The screams brought neighbors who, according to Villanueva police chief Valentino Sandoval, "more or less lynched the gang". After that, there was no shortage of armed men volunteering for nightly anti-gang patrols...
...came to Harvard with a strong interest in elocution, but there is not much opportunity to perform oral interpretation here," said Niki Villanueva Santo '00, one of the participants in the competition. "The Boylston contest is one of the last vestiges of that tradition at Harvard...