Word: violencia
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Punta massacre was the latest bloody eruption of "la violencia," the backland killings-part political, part savagery-that have taken more than 300,000 lives in Colombia in the past 14 years. Last week President Guillermo Leon Valencia, just one month in office, called on his Cabinet to draft a bill giving him greater power to establish police stations in rural areas, provide stiffer penalties for violence, and funds to combat banditry...