The death of Juan Andrés Benítez took place on 6 October 2013 in the neighborhood of El Raval of Barcelona, after he had been violently detained by the Mozos d’Escuadra, the autonomous police of Catalonia.
Andrés García Benítez (1916–1981) was one of the most important Cuban illustrators in the first half of the twentieth century. He was an artist and scenic designer whose works and notoriety existed for several decades before the Cuban Revolution,...
Juan Nepomuceno Álvarez Hurtado (27 January 1790 – 21 August 1867), generally known as Juan Álvarez, was a Mexican general, federalist caudillo, a principal sponsor of the state of Guerrero and its first governor, and interim president of Mexico...
Juan Eduardo Cirlot Laporta (9 April 1916 in Barcelona – 11 May 1973) was a Spanish poet, art critic, hermeneutist, mythologist, and musician.
Sebastián Piñera, former President of Chile, died on 6 February 2024 in a helicopter accident while on vacation in the commune of Lago Ranco, located in the southern Chilean region of Los Ríos. The helicopter crashed about 40 metres (130 ft) from...
Francisco Benítez Ynga (1617) was an indigenous nobleman and politician of the Spanish Empire. A grand-grandson of Emperor Atahualpa, he moved from Peru to New Spain in his youth and built a successful political career in the former Aztec Empire,...
The following is a list of assassinations of political candidates that took place in Mexico during the 2024 Mexican general and local elections. Up to sixty politicians were assassinated during the pre-campaign and campaign periods in Mexico but,...
Throughout its history, many people have been arrested and imprisoned in Venezuela for political reasons, mainly during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez and that of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in the 20th century and during the Bolivarian Revolution...
This is a list of notable people born in El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent (also see Salvadoran American).
Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti (June 19, 1923 – April 21, 1997) was a military officer and politician, being President of Paraguay from February 3, 1989, to August 15, 1993. He led the coup d'état on February 2 and 3, 1989, against the dictator Alfredo...
