"the Spanish Civil War, he was one of the first to be apprehended. He was imprisoned and then shot at a Nationalist concentration camp in 1937. This overcrowded prison had been a former Fyffes warehouse where bananas had been stored. López Torres wrote two books: Domingo López Torres Domingo López Torres (1910—1937) was a Canary painter, writer, and poet. Born to a very poor family in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he became an autodidact and convinced Marxist, playing a large role in the development of revolutionary intellectualism in the Canary Islands. He published incendiary articles in various labor publications, such"
"were imprisoned and the newspaper closed. Ramón Acín Ramón Acín Aquilué (1888, Huesca, Aragon, Spain – 1936) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, teacher, painter, sculptor, writer and avant-garde artist who was murdered by fascists in the first year of the Spanish Civil War. Acín was a friend of film director Luis Buñuel and provided some of the money for """" (1932) and so is credited as co-producer of the film. Biography Ramón Acín Aquilué was the son of Santos Acín Muliera, a surveyor engineer, and María Aquilué Royán. Ramón was the youngest of three siblings. Ramón's other two brothers were named"
"People (VOP) assassinated Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, justifying his actions as revenge for the massacre in Puerto Montt. The investigators located the terrorist commando and killed three of them: the brothers Ronald and Arturo Rivera Caderón and Heriberto Salazar Bello. The conceptualist artist Luis Camnitzer exhibited on June 20, 1969, an installation titled ""Massacre of Puerto Montt."" That sample failed: as the Camnitzer pointed out in a 2013 interview, ""the left attacked me because there was no blood and the right because there were words. I did a similar work in Caracas very popular, but in Chile they passed through the"
"conflict that took place between the late 1940s and the early 1950s, a period known as ""La Violencia"" (""The Violence""). Its cause was mainly mounting tensions between the two leading political parties, which subsequently ignited after the assassination of the Liberal presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948. The ensuing riots in Bogotá, known as El Bogotazo, spread throughout the country and claimed the lives of at least 180,000 Colombians. Colombia entered the Korean War when Laureano Gómez was elected president. It was the only Latin American country to join the war in a direct military role as"
"Domingo López Torres Domingo López Torres (1910—1937) was a Canary painter, writer, and poet. Born to a very poor family in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he became an autodidact and convinced Marxist, playing a large role in the development of revolutionary intellectualism in the Canary Islands. He published incendiary articles in various labor publications, such as ""La Tarde"" and ""Gaceta del Arte"". In 1930, he founded the cultural, ideological, and political journal ""Cartones"". In 1935, he opened a bookstore-tobacconist's shop, which became a meeting place for the far left of the Canarian political and literary elite. At the outbreak of"
"a backdrop to understand the perspective of the artist who provides viewers with such disturbing images. ""La Violencia"" is the name of a period of devastation in Colombia that arose because of the crisis of the coffee republic, the weakness of the government, and the dispute over property. The assassination of a popular radical politician, Gaitan, set off the large urban riots called the Bogotázo. The Bogotázo stormed the Presidential Palace and rioted against hunger and foreign businesses. Soon the persecuted poor civilians became a powerful authority by turning into insurgent revolutionaries backed by militias. However, a lack of leadership"
"from the racist attitudes prevalent at the time. In 1854, under the pretext of searching for stagecoach robbers, a vigilante group entered his home, confiscated his weapons, and shot him, leaving him seriously injured. As soon as he recovered, he returned to Valparaíso, where he started the city's first horse-drawn trolley line. José Manuel Ramírez Rosales José Manuel Ramírez Rosales, (1804, Santiago - 1877, Valparaíso) was a Chilean painter who was educated in France. He specialized in landscapes and maritime scenes, often with mythological elements. Although mostly involved in various business enterprises, he is remembered as Chile's first significant artist."
"those at Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo, and Ponce, where Antonio Alicea, Jose Miguel Alicea, Francisco Campos (Albizu Campos's nephew), Osvaldo Perez Martinez and Ramon Pedrosa Rivera were arrested and accused of the murder of police corporal Aurelio Miranda during the revolt. Raul de Jesus was accused of violating the Insular Firearms Law. On October 31, police officers and National Guardsmen surrounded ""Salón Boricua,"" a barbershop in Santurce. Believing that a group of Nationalists were inside the shop, they opened fire. The only person in the shop was Campos barber Vidal Santiago Díaz. Santiago Díaz, who fought alone against the attackers for"
"José Domingo Gómez Rojas José Domingo Gómez Rojas (Santiago, 19 June 1896 - 29 September 1920) was a Chilean poet and anarchist. He is also known for being the only victim of Don Ladislao's War. Gómez Rojas was born into a modest family and raised by his mother, having been abandoned by both his father and stepfather at an early age. He was born on Calle Agustinas, close to the centre of Santiago de Chile, and the small family later relocated to Calle San Diego. He studied at Manuel Barros Borgoño Secondary School. He Took great interest in poetry from"
"Colombian conflict The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates, and far-left guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to increase their influence in Colombian territory. Two of the most important international actors that have contributed to the Colombian conflict are multinational companies and the United States. It is historically rooted in the conflict known as ""La Violencia"", which was triggered by the 1948 assassination of populist political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, and in the aftermath"
"La Violencia La Violencia (, The Violence) was a ten-year civil war in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, fought mainly in the countryside. ""La Violencia"" is considered to have begun with the 9 April 1948 assassination of the popular politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a Liberal Party presidential candidate for the election in November 1949. His murder provoked the ""Bogotazo"" rioting that lasted for ten hours and killed some 5,000 people. An alternative historiography proposes as the start the Conservatives' return to power following the election of 1946. Rural town police"
"Ellacuría, Segundo Montes, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Joaquin López y López, Juan Ramon Moreno, and Amado López), Elba Ramos their housekeeper, and Celia Marisela Ramos her daughter, were murdered by the Salvadoran military on the campus of the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, because they had been labeled as subversives by the government. The assassinations galvanized the society's peace and justice movements, including annual protests at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, where several of the assassins had been trained under US government sponsorship. On 21 February 2001, the Jesuit priest"
"(Daniel Enrique Soto Torres, Abraham Lugo Ramos, Jairo Lugo Ramos, José Alejandro Díaz Pimentel, Abraham Israel Agostini) were shot dead while six others were arrested. His death was confirmed by the Venezuelan Police one day later. Pérez was reportedly observed in the morgue with three bullet wounds to the head, with official death certificates showing a similar pattern of shots to the head among his fallen rebels. Two days later, it was revealed that a pregnant woman and a child were also killed during the raid. The police and the Colectivos also suffered losses, with two officers killed and five"
"murdered in January 2001 at a village called Kilómetro 30. The victims were his father, Tomás Torres Abarca; his brother, Juan Torres Palacios; and his cousin, Juan Torres Miranda. All three died in a shoot-out in which Torres himself was wounded, as were his brothers Salvador and Carlos. Jose Isabel Flores Arizmendi, known as “El Chabelo,” was suspected of the murders and was arrested in Manzanillo, Colima; relatives of the victims said that he was the main hit man for drug trafficker Abel Arizmendi Flores, who was killed with his son Abel Arizmendi Diaz 48 hours after the shootout. “El"
"The first incident of the Nationalist uprisings was an act by a police force against the rebels, in the pre-dawn hours of October 29, 1950. The Insular Police of the town of Peñuelas surrounded the house of Melitón Muñiz Santos's mother. Melitón Muñiz Santos was the president of the Peñuelas Nationalist Party in the barrio Macaná, and the police were about to raid the house that Muñiz Santos was using as distribution center for weapons for the Nationalist Revolt. Without warning, the police fired on the Nationalists in the house. A firefight ensued, killing three Nationalists (Arturo Ortiz, Guillermo González"
"lands which caused the liberals and conservative parties to take sides in the conflict, worsening it. In 1948 the assassination of populist Jorge Eliécer Gaitán radically stirred up the armed conflict. It led to the ""Bogotazo"", an urban riot killing more than 4,000 people, and subsequently to ten years of sustained rural warfare between members of Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party, a period known as ""La Violencia"" (""The Violence""), which took the lives of more than 200,000 people throughout the countryside. As ""La Violencia"" wound down, most self-defense and guerrilla units made up of Liberal Party supporters"
"of the conspiracies and the rationale for violence. Catholics everywhere were shocked by the wave of anticlerical violence in the Republican zones in Spain in the first months of that war where anarchists, socialists and communists burned churches and murdered nearly 7,000 priests, monks, and nuns. La Violencia La Violencia (, The Violence) was a ten-year civil war in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, fought mainly in the countryside. ""La Violencia"" is considered to have begun with the 9 April 1948 assassination of the popular politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a"
"River (between the departments of Caqueta and Meta) known by the cartel as ""Tranquilandia"" (the ""Tranquil Land""). It triggered direct hostilities by the cartel against the Colombian State, commencing with the murders of Minister Lara Bonilla on April 20, 1984 and Colonel Jaime Ramírez Gómez two years later. The importance of Ramírez's fight against the drug traffickers has been highlighted years after his murder, due to the damage caused by drug cartels to both Colombian and international communities. On August 10, 1992, almost six years after the murder of Ramírez, the President of Colombia decreed that he should receive a"
"enemies such as John Jairo Velásquez, alias Popeye, lieutenant of Pablo Escobar, who published a book, ""Surviving Pablo Escobar"" (2015), where he described the crimes of the Medellín Cartel. Colonel Ramírez was murdered one month before what would have been his promotion to Brigadier General. After his death, the Direction of the Colombian Police suspended a posthumous promotion allegedly because ""he died outside a police operation"". After a legal battle of seven years, the Presidency of César Gaviria Trujillo ordered his posthumous promotion to Brigadier General. Jaime Ramírez Gómez Jaime Ramírez Gómez (July 4, 1940 - November 17, 1986) was"
"Gaitán returned to Bogotá and argued passionately in Congress in favor of the workers, arguing that the army action's did not protect Colombia's interests but instead those of the U.S. In 1948, presidential candidate Gaitàn was assassinated in Bogotá during the conference that gave birth the Organization of American States. Gaitan's assassination marked the beginning of La Violencia, a Colombian civil war which lasted until the mid-fifties and killed an estimated 300,000 Colombians. Towards the end of the conflict, Liberal and Communist armed peasant groups who remained at large, together with displaced peasants who had either fled from the violence"
"by President Felipe Calderon's government to persuade Mexico's various rival drug cartels—the Sinaloa Cartel, the Zetas, La Familia Michoacana, the Beltran-Leyvas, La Barbie, and the Juarez Cartel—to agree to a peace treaty. According to Valdez, Acosta Chaparro visited the leaders of all of these groups. Hernandez had interviewed the General two years earlier with the condition of anonymity, and he told her the same story. On 19 May 2010, in Mexico City's La Roma neighborhood, Acosta was injured after being shot four times in the thorax. During the attack, Acosta wrestled with the aggressor, while Rodolfo Chumacero Galindo—a former military"
"both ""Peninsulares"" and natives—""Indios"", ""Insulares"", and ""mestizos"", among others—in the economic reforms demanded by the ""Ilustrados"" were that “the Philippines be represented in the Cortes and be considered as a province of Spain” and “the secularization of the parishes.” However, in 1872, nationalist sentiment grew strongest, when three Filipino priests, José Burgos, Mariano Gómez and friar Jacinto Zamora, who had been charged with leading a military mutiny at an arsenal in Cavite, near Manila, were executed by the Spanish authorities. The event and ""other repressive acts outraitings and activities, Rizal was executed on December 30, 1896. His execution propelled the"
"their leaders arrested. In August 1974, Isabel Perón's government took away the rights of trade unionist representation of the ""Federación Gráfica Bonaerense"", whose Secretary General Raimundo Ongaro was arrested in October 1974. During the same month of August 1974, the SMATA Córdoba trade-union, in conflict with the company Ika Renault, was closed by the national direction of trade unions and the majority of its leaders and activists arrested. Most of them were assassinated during the 1976–1983 dictatorship. Atilio López, General Secretary of the CGT of Córdoba and former Vice Governor of the Province, was assassinated in Buenos Aires on 16"
"posthumous promotion to Brigadier General, a position that was due to be given to him one month after his murder. Colonel Ramírez's fight started in the 1970s when he led the dismantling of a gang of counterfeiters and drug traffickers in Bogotá, who were led by a Brazilian man known as Iván Darío Carvalho, alias ""El Mocho"", allegedly born in Medellín. The Police arrested him in April 1975 and found cocaine valued at 150 million Colombian pesos along with equipment for the counterfeiting of passports and visas at his residence. This operation led to a police incursion into a property"
"troops killed FARC commander Raúl Reyes in a guerrilla camp inside Ecuadorian borders on 1 March. Ecuador, Venezuela and Nicaragua, which has a maritime dispute with Colombia, cut diplomatic ties with Colombia as a response, with Chavez and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa ordering troops to their respective borders with Colombia. Uribe in response placed the armed forces on high alert but did not move his troops to confront them even though the Colombian army is larger than Ecuador's and Venezuela's combined. Several countries in the Americas criticized the incursion into Ecuador as a violation of national sovereignty, which was also"
"of the Ministry of the Interior or ""the horror chambers"" around 2,000 political prisoners were held and tortured during the 1971-1978 military rule. Many others simply disappeared. Among the victims of the regime are Colonel Andrés Selich, Banzer's first Minister of the Interior and co-conspirator in the August 1971 coup. Selich was accused of plotting to overthrow Banzer and died of blows sustained while in custody. Two other leaders with sufficient stature to potentially eclipse the dictator were murdered under suspicious circumstances while in exile: General Joanquin Zenteno Anaya and former President Juan José Torres, both in 1976. Much of"
"Antonio Ramón Antonio Ramón Ramón (13 November 1879 - c. 1924) was a Spanish anarchist. He was born in the town of Molvizar, in Granada, Spain. The bloodiest massacre in Chile’s history occurred on December 21, 1907. Workers in the nitrate mines, a leading industry owned largely by foreign (British and German) capital, struck on December 4 demanding humane working conditions and higher wages. By the 13th a general work stoppage in all the nitrate mines was announced. The miners were Bolivian, Argentine, Peruvian as well as Chileans. 18,000 workers, together with wives and children marched without food and water"
"1911-12, Alas sided with the rebels. During the 1975 civil war, supporters of the UDT and the FRETILIN movement, who had previously been in coalition, were involved in numerous altercations. On 27 August 1975, prompted by news that FRETILIN supporters were approaching the area, eleven prisoners belonging to either FRETILIN or its youth wing UNETIM were brought from Same to the beach at ‘’Meti Oan’’ in Mahaquidan ""suco"" and killed. Among the victims was the president of UNETIM, Domingos Lobato, brother of Nicolau and Rogerio Lobato. Following the Indonesian invasion in December 1975, Alas was one of the areas to"
"the pretext that he was storing weapons for the Nationalist Revolt. Without warning, the police fired upon the Nationalists in the house and a firefight between both factions ensued, resulting in the death of two Nationalists and the wounding of six police officers. Nationalists Meliton Muñiz Santos, Roberto Jaume Rodríguez, Estanislao Lugo Santiago, Marcelino Turell, William Gutiérrez and Marcelino Berríos were arrested and accused of participating in an ambush against the local Insular Police. The very next day, October 30, saw Nationalist uprisings throughout Puerto Rico, including Ponce, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo, Utuado (Utuado Uprising), Jayuya (Jayuya Uprising) and San Juan"
"Gomburza Gomburza, alternatively spelled GOMBURZA or GomBurZa, refers to three Filipino Catholic priests (Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora), who were executed on February 17, 1872 at Bagumbayan, Philippines by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. The name is a portmanteau of the priests' surnames. Their execution had a profound effect on many late 19th-century Filipinos; José Rizal, later to become the country's national hero, would dedicate his novel ""El filibusterismo"" to their memory. Mutiny by workers in the Cavite Naval Yard was the pretext needed by the authorities to redress a"
"be tagged and assassinated were: Catalino Pascual, Ireneo Acedo, Severino Tarampi and a certain Mr. Gomez. There was also an incident where the Japanese kidnapped a lady by the name of Genoveva A. Agsalda (residing in what is now Barangay San Andres) while reaping tobacco in her field (in Sili, Aurora) and never to be found again. When the ""liberating"" American warplanes arrived, a house in District Dos (now San Andres) where at least two families were residing was mistakenly identified as a Japanese camp. The house was heavily bombarded killing all the inhabitants of the compound. The fatalities were:"
"had been enslaved by Peru's white criollo and mestizo upper class. On 2 July 1884 the ""guerrillero"" Tomás Laymes and three of his men were executed in Huancayo by Caceres's forces because of the atrocities and crimes committed by the guerrillas against the Peruvian inhabitants of the cities and hamlets. In Ayacucho, indigenous peoples stood up against ""the whites,"" and in Chincha, the Afro-Peruvians banded together against their owners in the Haciendas of ""Larán"", ""San José"" and ""Hoja Redonda"". Only the Peruvian army could forcibly suppress the revolt. Chinese coolies formed the battalion ""Vulcano"" within the Chilean Army. There were"
"""Independence or Death"", López declared war against Rosas in 1845 to support what was ultimately an unsuccessful rebellion in the Argentine province of Corrientes. Although Britain and France prevented him from moving against Paraguay, Rosas established a trade embargo on Paraguayan goods. After Rosas fell in 1852, López signed a treaty with Buenos Aires that recognized Paraguay's independence, although the porteños never ratified it. In the same year, López signed treaties of friendship, commerce, and navigation with France and the United States. On October 1, 1853, US warship arrived on a visit in Asunción. Nonetheless, growing tensions with several countries,"