Assassination of Edmundo Menendez Cantarero event
also: Emundo's murder, machine-gunned, gunned down
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Edmundo Menendezperson · 4Guatemalacountry · 2Sandinistasorganization · 2United Statescountry · 2Anastasio Somozaperson · 2People's Guerrilla Armyorganization · 1U.S. State Departmentorganization · 1Nicaraguacountry · 1Nicaraguan National Policeorganization · 1
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that it may have triggered his heart attack in July of 1977, after which he went off to the U.S. to recuperate. Edmundo soon left the police department and was promoted to brigadier general and retired from the National Guard. Somoza sent h…
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in Guatemala City, catching three bullets in his back. Two days later, as he clung to life at a medical center, a revolutionary group, the People's Guerrilla Army, claimed credit for the assassination. The ECP's communique described Menende…
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They claimed that the ambassador was gunned down to show solidarity with the struggle of the Sandinistas. The Sandinistas never forgave my brother Emundo for the guerrillas activity. Emundo Menendez lingered for another 15 days before dying…
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Menendez's relationship with the U.S. government had some questions. The CIA has refused to disclose any information about him. Not that they don't have it. It's sealed for national security reasons. The State Department incredibly has clai…