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In the early hours of Aug. 11, 1976, Margarita Lopez Portillo was riding through Mexico City when a taxi swerved in front of her car. Four urban guerrillas, three men and a pregnant young woman, jumped out firing submachine guns. Margarita's car slammed into a drugstore; wounded, her chauffeur threw his body over his employer to protect her. Her bodyguards, traveling in a car behind, opened fire, killing one of the attackers as the other three fled.
The violent kidnapping attempt was nothing new in 1970s Mexico. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-- already in power for four decades--was fighting off attacks from 29 scattered leftist groups numbering ...
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