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Eclipse Of The Assassins
''Eclipse of the Assassins. The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía'' is a 2015 non-fiction book by historians Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley, published by University of Wisconsin Press. It discusses the murder of Manuel Buendía, and derives its title from a solar eclipse that Solar eclipse of May 30, 1984, took place over Mexico on May 30, 1984, the date of his assassination. Background Buendía was a prominent Mexican journalist, whose murder in 1984 outraged Mexican journalists and columnists, and featured prominently in newspaper coverage at the time.Freije, p. 766. When former Dirección Federal de Seguridad, DFS director José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez was indicted for the killing, some suspected that not only Pérez was responsible. University of Wisconsin professors Russell and Sylvia Bartley researched and wrote their book investigating Buendía's murder over about thirty years. The authors used court documents, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |