Chile: one year later

September 8, 1974

ZUNO IS RELEASED. Attorney José Zuno returned unharmed. Rubén Zuno reported that his father had been immediately handed over to the doctor. The family apologized to the journalists and said that they would call a press conference the following day. The First Lady of the Nation, Mrs. Esther Zuno de Echeverría, and his eleven siblings are in the family home. The kidnapping occurred on the 28th. Rubén, the eldest son, told the journalists that his father was very tired, but well. There is no information on whether the ransom was paid.

CHILE: ONE YEAR LATER. Santiago. The ceremonies arranged by the military government to mark the first anniversary of the coup that altered the destiny of Chile a year ago on September 11 will be quite sober. The date will be observed with only two events: a solemn mass at the War Academy and a single speech by the president of the Military Junta and Head of State, General Augusto Pinochet. Such sobriety contrasts with the roar of rockets and the rattle of machine guns that dealt the final blow to the leftist regime of President Salvador Allende and gave way to the birth of a harsh military government in 1973. Allende, a declared Marxist who was elected president in September 1970 for a six-year term, committed suicide in the Presidential Palace itself, which was burning in flames when it was stormed by troops on the day of the coup, according to an announcement by the new government. Thus ended Allende’s last attempt to politically transform Chile into a socialist state, ending the social and economic chaos engendered by the experiment. The Military Junta, made up of four high-ranking military leaders, one of the most rigid of the military governments ever to come to power in South America, installed a nationalist regime, violently anti-communist and determined to maintain law and order by force.

FAREWELL FOR GLORIA YAMUNIThe cream of Mochita’s female society gathered to bid farewell to one of its favorites, the beautiful Gloria Yamuni Robles. Glorita is the daughter of the esteemed couple formed by Mr. Enrique Yamuni and Gloria Robles de Yamuni, and is engaged to be married to Mr. Joaquín Solís. It is estimated that more than 130 ladies attended, bringing as a gift the envelope with a dollar, placed in a basket. The meeting lasted until nightfall.

September 8, 1999

Teachers of the Sierra live in fearThere is uncertainty and fear among teachers assigned to schools in the mountain region. It is a fact that most of them do not want to be there, and the violent cases that have occurred in some towns are the best excuse to request their transfer, reported the SEP. Despite the obstacles and dangers to which they may be exposed, teachers remain in the mountains, even on weekends, when they try to identify and interact with the inhabitants of the communities.

H. MUBARAK INJURED. Port Said. A man, a common criminal, grazed the arm of President Hosni Mubarak, 71, with a sharp object as he drove through the northern city. The attacker was shot dead by presidential guards; Mubarak has survived three assassinations. His predecessor, Anwar Sadat, was assassinated in 1981 by Islamic militants angry over the signing of a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Sadat was then vice president and became president.

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Sylva Monica Ruffo Kelly, who completed her elementary and high school studies in Los Mochis, spent two years in El Centro, California, where she perfected her English. She joined El Debate in September 1994 as a translator and then, in 2000, became an assistant editor at El Debate de Los Mochis, tasks that led her to take charge of the entertainment page for more than 10 years and the newspaper’s newspaper archives. Upon the death of the City Chronicler, Don Evaristo Fregoso, in September 2003, who wrote the column Los Mochis 50 and 25 years ago, Ruffo Kelly took charge of the history column, which she later changed to My City 50 and 25 years ago, in which she narrates what happened in those years on the same day of publication of the newspaper EL DEBATE de Los Mochis.

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