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The Night of the Pencils (in Spanish: Noche de los Lápices), was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of 10 high-school students that began on the evening of 16 September 1976 and continued into the next day, during Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship. The event is one of the ...
This is a list of New York City newspapers and magazines. [1] ... El Diario La Prensa (Spanish-language daily) Empire State News (daily) The Epoch Times (daily)
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP) was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations (see: Dirty War) performed during the ...
Thomas Peters, born Thomas Potters (1738 – 25 June 1792), [1] was a veteran of the Black Pioneers, fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War. A Black Loyalist, he was resettled in Nova Scotia, where he became a politician and one of the "Founding Fathers" of the nation of Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Herbert Lionel Matthews (January 10, 1900 – July 30, 1977) was a reporter and editorialist [1] for The New York Times who, at the age of 57, won widespread attention after revealing that the 30-year-old Fidel Castro was still alive and living in the Sierra Maestra mountains.
Pedro Avilés Pérez (April 11, 1931 – September 15, 1978), also known as "El León de la Sierra" (English: "The Mountain Lion"), [3] [4] was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa beginning in the late 1960s. He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana. [5]
Princess Elena Poniatowska. Poniatowska was born Helène Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor in Paris, France, in 1932. [1] [2] Her father was Prince Jean Joseph Évremond Sperry Poniatowski (son of Prince André Poniatowski), born to a prominent family distantly related to the last king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanisław August Poniatowski. [3]
Noticiero Telemundo: Fin de Semana airs at 6:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (5:30 p.m. Central and Mountain). In December 2015, del Villar was joined as co-anchor of the Saturday and Sunday editions by Felicidad Aveleyra (who joined the network from Univision owned-and-operated station KMEX-DT in Los Angeles, where she served as anchor of its ...