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The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of U.S. Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men. [ 1]: 64 The Texas Rangers Company B had been sent to the area to stop banditry after the Brite Ranch ...
Gaigirgordub, [1] called El Porvenir ( Spanish pronunciation: [el poɾ.βeˈniɾ]) until July 1, 2016, is the capital of the Panamanian comarca (indigenous territory) of Guna Yala. The settlement is located on a small island and contains a landing strip, a museum (the Museo de la Nación Guna, or Museum of the Guna Nation), a hotel, government ...
Colonia Dignidad. / 36.38694°S 71.58806°W / -36.38694; -71.58806. Colonia Dignidad ('Dignity Colony') was an isolated colony established in post- World War II Chile by emigrant Germans which became notorious for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s ...
The Porvenir massacre (also, El Porvenir massacre, Pando massacre) was a deadly ambush in the early hours of September 11, 2008, allegedly organized by Prefectural authorities of the Bolivian Department of Pando, as part of a civil coup d'état against the government of Evo Morales by members of the right-wing civic movement.
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Back when it was Camp Steiner, it was the highest-elevation Boy Scout camp in the country at 10,400 feet, and campers had to hike a mile to get into the camp. The camp's buildings date back to the ...
Despite the remarkable significance of the siege and fall of Algeciras, there are few contemporary written sources that recount the events. The most important work is the Chronicle of Alfonso XI, which tells the main events of the reign of King Alfonso XI, and whose chapters describing the siege of Algeciras were written by the royal scribes in the Christian camp.
The Harris-Walz campaign has received the first-ever presidential endorsement from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and largest Latino civil rights group in the ...