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Opening WIDE across Southern California: It’s Godzilla! (toon)

May 16, 2014 by LALO ALCARAZ

Pocho History 101: El Presidente de San Marcos is killed (video)

November 12, 2013November 12, 2013 by CHALE KNICKERBOCKER

It was on this day in 1971 that right-wing conspirators assassinated the democratically-elected president of the small Latin American country of San Marcos and replaced him with a military dictator. Howard Cosell reports.

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