Los Tres Ojos is a cave located in the capital of the island, Santo Domingo. Its name in Russian translates as "three eyes", the cave got its name from three internal lakes at a depth of 15 meters, each of which has a special composition of water and, accordingly, color.
One lake is fresh with the purest aquamarine water, the second is the smallest, green-yellow, with sulfuric water, from which healing vapors emanate. The third lake is salty, located under powerful stalactites. There used to be four lakes, but the vault of the cave collapsed.
Los Tres Ojos is one of the most popular attractions in the Dominican Republic.A lot of people come to look at the amazing lake cave every day. In addition, this unique natural landmark is located not in a distant natural park, where it takes several hours to get there, but right in the capital Dominican Republic.
Tourist information
- Previously, you can swim in the lakes, and even bungee jumping into the deepest. But on this moment swimming is prohibited for safety reasons.
- It is quite easy to walk along the ornate cave - stairs, bridges and handrails were installed for tourists.
- By most large lake you can take a boat ride. Be sure to take this unusual walk through the underground waters of the mysterious cave, where many centuries ago the Indians made their religious rites and sacrifices.
Opening hours and ticket prices
You can visit the caves from Monday to Saturday from 08.00 to 17.00. Monday is traditionally a day off.
An adult ticket will cost you 10 pesos, and a child ticket is half the price, it costs only 5 pesos.
How to get there
Since the cave is located in the capital of the Dominican Republic, you can get to it in several simple ways:
- You can take the bus route Ave Las Americas - Calle El Sol to get to natural park Los Tres Ojos.
- As always, you can easily reach any of the city's attractions using a taxi or your own rental car.
- If you are staying in the east of Santo Domingo, you can easily cover the distance to the cave on foot.
Contacts
Address: Los Tres Ojos, Santo Domingo Este, Santo Domingo, Rep? Blica Dominicana
Phone: +1 809 472 4204
Columbus Lighthouse - Dominican Republic Red Square Columbus Lighthouse (Faro a Colon) is perhaps the most important monument in the entire Dominican Republic. If you arrived in this country but did not visit the lighthouse, you are missing a lot.
Park Los Glaciares (Parque Nacional Los Glaciares) probably the most popular in Argentina. He hides incredible beautiful places - the world-famous Perito Moreno glacier, Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy mountains, Viedma and Argentino lagoons with fragments of icebergs. Incredibly beautiful places. And naturally, crowds of tourists come there from all over the world. Japanese, Germans, Spaniards are probably the main visitors to the park. Dozens of buses with retirees run on scenic roads among the Argentine pampas. Such a desire to travel is respectable, especially considering that many tourists have already crossed the 80-year mark, judging by their appearance.But that's not the point. The track to Fitz Roy is the most popular spot in the park and many "walking" tourists tend to go there. The track begins at the outskirts of the town of El Chalten, and ends on the banks of the Laguna de los Tres. The whole journey takes about 4 hours - judging by the route map that is issued in the park's visitor center. In fact, a little more - because it is impossible to resist the beauties and you have to stop at every step and climb behind the camera. The elevation difference is quite substantial - 750 meters, although it stretches over the entire track. The track is 10 kilometers long. Many tourists buy one day excursion and pass the track both ways in a day. Personally, I don't understand the pleasure of riding 20 kilometers back and forth without really enjoying the beauty ...
2. A minority of tourists take a tent (often rented) and go to the Poinsenot camp, from which to the lagoon is an hour and a half walk. There they spend the night and go up early in the morning to catch the sunrise. We did the same. Unless the tent had its own) "Ascents" converge in the camping in the late afternoon, and it becomes noisy. Cyclists set up a tent near us. I met one of them. Mark spoke about their epic travel plan in Argentina. But the wind on the way to El Chalten was so strong that they decided to stop - and drove away in the first pickup they came across, throwing the bikes into the back. He asked to wake them up by dawn (I happened to be the happy owner of a working phone with an alarm clock).
The freaking wake-up rang at 4.30, I quickly got ready, stirred up the neighbors' tent and went out. I really wanted to sleep. And the road was unpleasant. Of the 750 meters of climb, 400 hit the last 2 kilometers - to the lake shore. Almost 200 meters from the camp, the trail went up sharply, winding between the stones.
For those who are going to go up at dawn, I advise you to lay at least 1.5 hours - for those who are in good shape. The trail is very unpleasant - boulders, powder. Plus snow on the rocks.
Climbing upstairs and catching my breath a little, I was certainly stupefied - this view opened up. The whole thread of the route was visible. That which passed and that which was yet to come. Two lakes in the foreground - Madre and Iha - Mother and Daughter, past which the trail to Cerro Torre passed. Behind them you can see a piece of Capri lago - near which we spent the first night, and a strip of water on the horizon is Viedma lago, a huge lake. 
3. But with Lago de los Tres, to which I went, it turned out to be a bummer. Instead of a beautiful reflection that I wanted to shoot, I was greeted by ice. Spring in these parts was just beginning, and the lake did not have time to melt. I was disappointed. Strong. But there is nothing to do, you have to shoot what is. I made a couple of shots from above the lake, and then went down to the ice. 
4. Clouds swirled over the peaks, the classic view of Fitz Roy again did not work. But it was still beautiful. It was evident that the ice melted, and then froze again. 
5. The sun was rising, and I moved to a small hole. A piece was seen there mountain range... Meanwhile, on the slope above me, where the first photo was taken, more and more climbers appeared. A bit overslept at the dawn) During the day there will be even more of them, although during the day there is nothing to do there - the sun directly above the peaks prevents you from taking something sensible. 
6. A little later I went to a small rocky hill overlooking two lakes - de los Tres and Susia. The second lake had already opened and ice plaques were floating in it like droplets of fat in soup. 
7. The morning was in full swing, and the peaks were never shown. The cloud veil hung over the peaks for a long time, and only during the day it swelled and the teeth of Fitz Roy and Poinsenot showed up 
8. On the same day we dismantled the camp, packed our backpacks and went to another fantastic peak - Cerro Torre. A farewell look at our native places. It seems that you know all the snags and more or less photogenic trees by heart) 
9. The mountain accompanied us with a roar - an avalanche descended from the glacier lying at the foot of Fitz Roy. As if they were firing from a cannon, the echo carried the noise throughout the park .. 
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Natural Park Los Tres Ojos (Los Tres Ojos - three eyes) is located in Santo Domingo Este (eastern part of the capital) in the Mirador del Este park.
The park is named after three lakes located in a huge cave. There is also a fourth lake, but since it has a direct access to the surface, it is not considered an "eye".
About 3 thousand years ago, an earthquake occurred in these parts, as a result of which interconnected cup-shaped caves were formed, which over time were filled with the waters of an underground river.
All caves are located at a depth of about 15 meters and are interconnected hiking trails from stone steps, and an observation deck is equipped near each lake.
The water in the lakes is of different colors, as it differs in chemical composition and different depths.
The very first is the Blue Waters (Aquas Azufradas) - a perfectly transparent lake of 4 meters depth, the water in which has a bright and juicy aquamarine color due to the blanquesida substance.
The second is the Freezer (Nevera) - a small lake 5.5 m deep, the temperature in which varies from +15 to +21 ° C, since the waters of the lake never see the color of the sun.
The third of the lakes, the Lake of Women (El Lago de las Mujeres), is located in the center of a huge cave hall decorated with stalactites. The Taino Indians also noticed that women who swim in this lake have many children. And until recently, tourists were allowed to do this too.
Alas, this is now prohibited.
And finally, the fourth lake - Zaramagullones. The one that was not included in the list of "eyes" of Los Tres Ojos, as the dome of the cave collapsed.
Despite this, Zaramagullones is perhaps the most picturesque lake, the slopes of which are covered with natural vegetation, and you can see the lake not only by moving to its shores by ferry under the arches of the cave ...
But also from the upper platform of Los Tres Ojos park ...
By the way, in the park, not far from Lake Zaramagullones, you can also take a picture at the "dinosaur skull" ...
Los Tres Ojos Park is open to the public from 9:00 to 17:00, cost entrance ticket 100 pesos, ferry to the fourth lake - 25 pesos.
Bobby Parker never imagined that he would fall into a trap and the meeting he was seeking would be fatal for him.
In fact, he was not at all taken aback when the conversation with these three Mexicans suddenly took a serious turn: he had to be in not such alterations. With his left hand he dutifully pulled out his wallet. Having calculated accurately, he unclenched his fingers, and the wallet, instead of finding itself in one of the opponents, flopped to the ground. Immediately, his right hand nimbly slid under his jacket, drew the pistol, and Bobby pulled the trigger. Of course, he fully admitted that these guys were armed, but ... it's always better to shoot first.
Bobby Parker, aka Robert Canales, an experienced and successful FBI agent, could have aimed more precisely, then he would not be lying now with paralyzed legs. And if he killed two of those Chicanoes, maybe there would have been no process, no disturbances caused by him, which still excite the Mexican population of the eastern quarters of Los Angeles ...
The American press bypassed this event in silence, displaying an uncharacteristic indifference to topical material. This time she was not seduced by any juicy details from the life of the criminal world, nor the adventures of underground drug dealers and agents provocateurs, nor a shootout followed by a chase and round-up. The bottom line is that the "Los Tres Case" - the "Case of Three" - was contrary to the assertions of the judicial authorities to be thoroughly political. And to tell about it meant to tell the public about the most burning, explosive problems of one of the national minorities of the United States - the Chicano, Americans of Mexican descent.
The circumstances of the "Los Tres Cases" became known to me in the summer of 1973, during the X World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin. On a hot August day, I approached the Internationale cinema, where the US delegation's club was located, hoping to find some American Indian there. The guy I took for an Indian turned out to be a Chicano. He was not offended:
It happens. And then many of us have Indian blood in our veins. And those you are looking for will only appear late at night.
Upon learning that I was from Moscow, he, as if guessing my next question, suggested:
What if you write about us too? Chicano life in America is not often written about, and probably even more so abroad.
Soon we were sitting in one of the rooms of the American festival club. My new acquaintance, Arturo Rodriguez, was joined by his friends - Juan Baldisan, Jaime Garcia and Nativo Lopez. It was Lopez who was sent to the festival by the Committee for the Liberation of Los Tres, and it was he who told me about the problems of the urban youth of Chicano, described in detail the circumstances of the Los Angeles process of 1971, which played an important role in the development of the organized struggle of the Chicano for their social and political rights.
Drugs or people
To understand the essence of this matter, one must recall the events that preceded it. Nativo pulls out a thin brochure from the stack of papers in front of him and hands it to me. “Our Los Tres Liberation Committee published it. Here's a little bit about what these three guys did before the FBI set a trap for them. Juan Fernandez, Alberto Ortiz, and Rodolfo Sánchez were activists for the organization, which emerged in the spring of 1969 in east Los Angeles. It was called "CASA de Carnalismo", or "Center for Public Autonomous Action." (CASA stands for Centro de Accion Sociale Autonomo).
A slender black-haired girl enters the room.
Lenore de Cruz, - she introduces herself to me and puts several newspapers on the table. “This is what you asked for, Nativo.
These are newspapers published by various Chicano organizations. Nativo pushes them towards me:
See what's still going on in East Los Angeles, how the police atrocities. The KASA leaders wanted to end this bullying, to pull their fellows out, if not out of poverty, then at least out of darkness and ignorance ...
The Association for Progressive Action of the Maravilla Community held a press conference at which they reported on new facts of police terror against Chicano in the community. Joseph Sanchez, Leonard Rodriguez, Mario Montoya, the Pinon brothers - 19-year-old Sal and 16-year-old David - were beaten and abused.
The Pinon brothers have issued press statements. Sal: “At 1.30 am on May 19, 1973, David and I were stopped on the street by a police patrol. For some unknown reason, we were searched. One of the policemen punched me in the face for no reason. I answered him in kind. And then he received such a blow that he lost consciousness. I woke up in the hospital. "
David: “They pushed me into a courtyard and started beating me with truncheons. At that time my brother was taken away. The owner, Albert Pacheco, and his two sisters ran out of the house. They started asking the police to stop the beating. They were arrested.
I was handcuffed and pushed into the car. On the way to the hospital, the car stopped in a deserted park. The police opened the door and told me, "Run." I knew it was a provocation and refused. Then they slammed the door with all their might so that it hit my feet. Then one hit me in the groin with a truncheon.
Sal: “At Bella Vista Hospital, the police continued to torture and abuse us. The doctors saw all this and laughed as if they had swallowed laughing gas. Therefore, David did not trust them and did not allow him to sew up the wounds on his head. Then we were taken to the station. They dragged David out of the car by the hair and hit him between his legs again. They searched us at the police station. They found a comb with the trademark "Little Man" on David. One policeman grabbed a fountain pen and began writing these words on David's forehead and cheeks. The others, meanwhile, began to beat me. They tried to aim at the eye that had been crippled on the street. Then they said that it was not good when the floor and walls were splattered with blood, that it had to be wiped off, and began to drive our faces along the walls. We tried to hint at our constitutional rights, but in response, new attacks and insults fell in. "
Those who created CASA de Carnalismo understood that the Chicanos would not get justice if they put up with their backwardness, their illiteracy, ”says Nativo, waiting for me to look through the story of the Pynon brothers. “Therefore, they took up educational work. They gave lectures, arranged seminars, concerts, organized various courses and circles, legal advice centers, conducted educational work with young people, trying to end gangsterism among teenagers. Very soon they realized that all their enthusiasm would be wasted if they did not eliminate perhaps the most important evil - the drug trade.
Addiction in our country has reached the proportions of a nationwide problem, but in the slums of Los Angeles it has become the number one disaster. The authorities did not cope or did not want to really tackle this problem. And the leaders of KASA decided to take matters into their own hands. They launched a campaign under the slogan: "If the people do not destroy drugs, drugs will destroy the people." The plan was based on simple logic: to end addiction, you must do away with the source of the drugs; this source is underground businessmen, therefore businessmen must be expelled.
KASA activists acted decisively. Having found a "pusher" (1 "Pusher" - "pusher", a drug dealer (American slang).), They offered him to immediately and permanently get out of these places. Special pickets took under surveillance street hawkers and shops selling syringes. And the KASA area was quickly cleared of drugs. This was officially noted by doctors when they examined young people. The three who fell into the police trap - Juan Ramon Fernandez, Alberto Ortiz and Rodolfo Pena Sanchez - especially distinguished themselves in the campaign. The popularity of CASA de Carnalismo grew. But along with it, the suspicion of the authorities grew. Their line is clear to us: keep the Chicano out of politics. Therefore, they look askance at any organization that can become the center of coordinated, planned actions of the Mexican minority. It was decided to discredit KASA at any cost. This is evidenced by the materials collected by the defense on the "Los Tres Case". The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made at least two attempts to put an end to KASA at the hands of professional provocateurs.
Nativo puts his hand on the Los Tres Liberation Committee brochure.
Here everything is described in detail. At the trial, the judge did not allow the main witness for the defense to speak, saying that the testimony he was going to give was “irrelevant”. This man's name is Frank Martinez.
Unwanted witness
Frank Martinez was always assigned a difficult job, and he coped with it consistently successfully. Frank's "specialty" was the following: he made his way into the leadership of some leftist organization, then dragged the "masses" to a "revolutionary feat" - the arson of a bank, terrorist act - certainly something like that. The "feat" ended with the instant appearance of large police squads at the scene of the incident, a search, the destruction of the organization's headquarters and its outlawing.
Martinez was transferred to California from Houston, Texas in 1969, when he was on the verge of exposure during the preparation of another operation. Martinez was ordered to compromise one of the most powerful Chicano organizations, the National Chicano Moratorium, with 140,000 members. We must pay tribute to the agent's zeal and dexterity: in a few months he became the chairman of the organization. The "feat" was not slow to take place: during the election campaign in 1970, a crowd of Chicano attacked Senator John Tunney. Immediately followed by a police raid on the headquarters of the "Chicano Moratorium", mass arrests ...
The next target was CASA de Carnalismo. Martinez was faced with the usual task of infiltrating the organization and persuading several of its members to set off an explosion, preferably at a bank. The explosives would not be the case.
At first, the agent launched a very diligent activity. But ... very little time passed, and the authorities began to receive strange information from him, to put it mildly. Martinez reported that CASA de Carnalismo is an association of residents of a community called Picogardens and Aliso, that its main activities are: providing legal assistance to immigrants from Mexico, organizing English and Spanish courses, guitar lessons and classes the sports section (karate), youth employment, and the campaign against drug addiction and drug trafficking. Moreover, Martinez added, CASA had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks that the police attributed to a certain underground organization, the Chicano Liberation Front. Of course, the authorities did not want to hear about such information. Martinez was expected to do something different - to present KASA as a legal cover for the underground "front", which was accused of a series of bombings in Los Angeles. Martinez was shown photographs of the leaders of the CASA, including Los Tres, and ordered to help at any cost to hide them behind bars ...
And then the unexpected happened. Either conscience spoke in the hardened provocateur, or some other reasons had an effect, but, not daring to disobey the order openly, he did everything possible to fail the assignment. Apparently, the contrast between what he expected and what Martinez actually saw was too striking. Instead of screamers waving homemade bombs, there are serious guys who teach their fathers and grandfathers the basics of political literacy, and literacy in general. Instead of calls for an "immediate revolution", there is persistent and dangerous work to cleanse the community of a terrible infection - drug addiction.
Pariahs of the American Southwest
As some American newspapers admit, much less is known about the life of the Chicanos in the United States than about any other national minority, although this group is followed by the number of the Negro population - according to unofficial estimates, it has at least 8 million people.
Most of the Chicano live in the southwestern United States. In the states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, they make up over 20 percent of the population.
This is how the New York magazine Business Week describes the emergence of Chicanos in the United States:
“The Chicanos claim (and they have every right to do so) that they were the first to inhabit the southwestern part of the North American continent, and not aliens from Europe. The city of Santa Fe (New Mexico) was founded 11 years before the "pilgrims" (1 refers to the settlers from the "Mayflower" who reached America in 1620 - Ed.) Saw the shores of America .. Many Mexican Americans have ancestors who lived in the Southwest long before the territory became part of the United States after the Mexican-American War. Roughly 85 percent of Chicano's are natives. ”
The Chicano unemployment rate is double the national average. Among them there are absolutely no people belonging to the income of the middle or upper strata of American society.
The plight of Mexican immigrants recruited by companies in need of cheap unskilled labor is especially dire. Day laborers are used in the most difficult jobs in mines, in construction railways... Many Mexicans work in the vineyards. Incidentally, it was the performances of the Chicano agricultural workers that first drew the attention of the American public to the problems of this national minority. Plantation strikes are led by a union of agricultural workers led by one of the most energetic Chicano activists, Cesar Chávez.
In front of me is a hefty pile of bindery sheets, the fruit of the painstaking work of young activists from the Chicano Aztlan news service. 250 pages of small text reproduce material from seven local newspapers different states in one month.
We began to regularly publish this edition, - says Lenore de Cruz. - It will help organize data on the position of Chicano different areas USA and thus will be a good propaganda tool in our work. Just take a look at the headlines.
I leaf through this book-newspaper.
ARIZONA RIPABLIK: “The outlook for agricultural workers is very bleak”: “Chavez calls for a new boycott if the collective bargaining negotiations fail again.”
DENVER POST: Beating of an Arrested Chicano; "The skyrocketing suicide rate among Denver's Chicanos."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Riots on the East Side. Two killed "; Social Tragedy in the Fields: Illegal Exploitation of Children; “Agricultural workers strike: pickets intensified; 54 more people were arrested ”; "Roundup for" illegal "immigrants from Mexico".
EL PASO TIMES: Housing shortage for Chicano.
SAN FRANCISCO CROWN:
"Clashes and arrests in connection with a strike in the vineyards."
"SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN":
"Security Measures Against the Entry of New Mexican Immigrants."
That's it, - sighs Lenore de Cruz. “It’s not surprising that we are trying to attract the attention of the whole country by any means.
Conversation in the wasteland
Let's go back, however, to The Los Tres Affair and Frank Martinez. Of course, the idea of \u200b\u200ban armed raid on the bank was buried - Martinez's discouraging reports played a role. But the FBI did not give up on its idea and began to "play" the second, "quieter" option. At the disposal of Martinez was a certain Naho, a hopeless drug addict who would carry out any dirty errands just to have money for heroin. The mission of Martinez, who by this time had already lost his trust, was not difficult: to arrange his "friend" for the night in the premises of the KASA headquarters. It was not difficult for an experienced agent to guess what would happen in the morning: the police would come and search, find heroin or opium, and KASA would be declared the main drug dealer in the district, which would automatically lead to its ban.
At the appointed hour Martinez took Naho to sleep. For a long time I meandered in pitch darkness along some backyard, finally stopped in front of an unprepossessing door, opened it and, pushing Naho inside with the words: "It's here," quickly walked away.
How soon Naho realized that he was not at all where he needed to, and in the lair of local criminals and drug addicts like him, remains unknown. But he did not get to the headquarters of KASA on that or any other night. Martinez thwarted the assignment.
It was then that the third and last plan for the liquidation of KASA was put into effect.
In those July days of 1971, Rudi (Rodolfo Sanchez) left home early, returned after midnight - work at KASA was up to his throat. “This one called again,” they told him at home. For the second week some subject has been seeking a meeting with Rudy. On the evening of July 21, Sanchez answered the phone.
Bobby Parker, the stranger introduced himself.
This is the first time I've heard, ”Rudy said.
But the name Robert Middleton reminds you of something, doesn't it? Parker chuckled.
Middleton ... Rudy shouldn't remember that name! The most nightmarish, the most shameful thing in his life is connected with him, that with which he was done forever and from which he was now trying to warn and save others. Yes, Rudy went this path: syringe - robbery - prison. There, in prison, they met - Sanchez and Middleton. Later, at the trial, Rudy learns that Bobby Middleton got money not only by robberies, but he was not averse to offering his services to everyone who paid well: the police, the FBI. Especially the FBI. The defense will require Middleton to be brought in as a witness, but her request will be answered that after another bank robbery he was just released on bail and disappeared in an unknown direction. However, all this is later. And on that July evening, Rudy did not even think that his former friend in the cell had a "second person". Otherwise, he would not have taken Parker's request at face value.
I came to you just on the advice of Middleton, - echoed in the telephone receiver. - Rumor has it that "goods" are not stored in your area. If you would take me to one of your old acquaintances. You will not regret.
Get out where you came from. I don’t do that kind of stuff anymore, ”Rudy snapped.
But Parker turned out to be an assertive fellow and bend his own. “Actually, why do I refuse? - said Sanchez. - He says that he uses large batches of heroin. So we'll cover another bastard! "
Okay, on hand, we will discuss the details tomorrow, - he "surrendered".
At about 2 pm on July 22, 1971, Juan Fernandez and Alberto Ortiz drove Rodolfo Sanchez in a car to a sausage shop, where Bobby Parker was supposed to approach. Rudy stayed to wait, while his friends left.
Exactly at 2 o'clock, it sounded over Rudy's ear:
Bobby Parker.
Bobby was punctual. And long hair. His hair was on Rudy's face as they raced down the highway on Parker's motorcycle.
That wasteland over there, ”Rudy pointed out.
We stopped.
Well, lay it out, what's the matter.
I need three ounces of heroin. I give 1200 dollars. Going?
Do you consume yourself?
No, except maybe I play around sometimes, sniff cocaine.
Okay, wait here. I'll run off to talk to someone. It's nearby.
Rudy walked around the corner of the house where Juan and Alberto were waiting for him.
Sit in the car for now. We ourselves will talk with this guy, - Juan and Alberto headed towards the shaggy motorcyclist. Both had pistols in their pockets. This precaution was taught to them by frequent and unpleasant communication with the "wards" of KASA.
Are you Bobby Parker? - Juan and Alberto asked the shaggy one. - Do you feel like heroin? In our places, this "product" is no longer in vogue. Get out of here, pick it up.
A business so well started cracked at the seams. Bobby didn't want to believe it. Well, nothing, he will make these upstarts climb on the rampage. And then the policemen will arrive in time. They have settled somewhere nearby and will appear at the first call. And Bobby began to "put pressure on the psyche":
Who are they? Don't meddle in your own business!
Don't you understand in a good way? Okay. - The guys moved close. “You bragged to Rudy that you were rowing bags of money. Well, this money should be returned to the people. And without them, some will have to give up their occupation. At least for a while. Shake out everything you have with you.
Bobby humbly reached into his pocket for his wallet ...
Of course, from the point of view of the authorities, everything turned out very well. These two and that one, Rudy, will be grabbed in an hour or two. Now they have a cover. No joke - an attempted armed robbery of an FBI agent! And KASA is over ... But it doesn't make it easier for him, Robert Canales. He was a fraction of a second late with the shot ...
Gnarled in pain, the Parker sank into the roadside dust.
It is useless to resist.
The quarter is cordoned off, it's clear. And the police already know which house they are in. In vain it only alarmed the hostess and her daughter. It will be bad for them if the shooting starts. And Los Tres, as they began to be called from that moment, went out to meet the police ...
Court
Nine jurors, entering the courtroom, were dumbfounded. "Hands up," the federal police officer ordered calmly. The FBI man was busily feeling their pockets - in full view of the public, the court officials, the judge! “Oh, kay,” the officer nodded to the judge, “you can proceed, your honor.” Trembling with fear and humiliation, the jury trudged to their places. So on October 19, 1971, the Los Tres case began in the Los Angeles federal court.
Outraged lawyers challenged the entire jury, from whom it was difficult to expect objectivity after the procedure of a public search. Still, what inveterate bandits should sit in the dock if the police suspect that they may have armed accomplices in the composition of the court itself! At first, the defense argument seemed to have worked on Judge Laidik. But when he learned that new jurors could be selected no earlier than in 24-48 hours, he waved his hand: there is no need to delay the process.
The defense submitted photographs and other materials to the court, proving conclusively that many of its potential witnesses had been blackmailed by FBI agents. Judge Laidick dismissed this protest, too, without even reading the evidence on the simple grounds that, in his opinion. "The FBI couldn't do that." But any evidence that contradicted the prosecutor's version, who portrayed the KASA as a subversive terrorist group, which set as its goal to kill all police officers in the Mexican neighborhoods, Judge Laidic irritatedly dismissed as "irrelevant." He refused to listen to the doctors' opinion on how successful the KASA's fight against drug trafficking had been. Those who wanted to tell how the defendants tried to reason with their fellow citizens, how, risking their lives, they expelled heroin dealers from the community were not allowed into the courtroom. In total, the judge rejected more than 30 defense motions.
Nativo, who told me about the process, explains the behavior of the judge:
What else could he do? After all, it was necessary at any cost to represent Los Tres as criminals and thereby discredit the "CASA de Carnalismo". So he clamped his mouths to the witnesses. The prosecution was particularly afraid of such testimony, which confirmed the picture of a police conspiracy against KASA. Therefore, the main witness for the defense, Frank Martinez, was not allowed into the hall. Therefore, the prosecutor and his witnesses were confused when they substantiated the charge of "an attack on a federal agent who was on duty."
On the one hand, Canales claimed that he had no idea about any "CASA de Carnalism". This was necessary in order to refute the defense's argument about the premeditated actions of the police against KASA. On the other hand, the police raided the KASA headquarters just half an hour after the shooting at Canales. and an hour and a half before the arrest of Los Tres themselves. How did Canales and the police know that the leadership of the organization should be sought there? The defense had a witness whom Canales, even before calling Rudy Sanchez, asked about CASA and especially about the campaign against drug addiction. Of course, this witness was not allowed to speak at the trial either. The prosecutor nevertheless admitted that the FBI had been watching the CASA for a long time and had accumulated an extensive dossier about its work. The defense tried to claim this dossier, such a right is given to her by law. They refused this too ...
On January 7, 1972, a federal court found Juan Rayon Fernandez, Alberto Ortiz, and Rodolfo Pena Sanchez guilty on all counts of "conspiracy against the US government", "assault on a federal agent on duty", and "assault on the guardian of the federal mail (?!), money or other property of the United States in order to steal it with the use of weapons. " Ortiz was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Fernandez to 25, Sanchez to 40.
We consider the sentence to be deeply unfair, says Nativo. - The process was thoroughly political. And we try to explain this to people. We invite representatives of other groups and organizations of various national minorities to our rallies. Thus, the Los Tres Affair is not only not buried in the court records, it serves our struggle. By the way, the defense demanded a revision of the decision, and so far the justice authorities have not said either "yes" or "no". This caution itself says something. Let "CASA de Carnalismo" no longer exist, but its bold experience helped us to understand that the guarantee of the success of our struggle is organization and unity. We Chicano are not what we were ten or even two years ago.
When this article was already being prepared for publication, I received a parcel post from the United States. The package read "Sender": National Committee for the Liberation of Los Tres.
“Brothers, sisters! - I read in one of the materials sent to me by my friends at the Berlin Festival. - Our committee is proud to announce that Los Tres has recently been released on bail and is awaiting a decision by the 9th Court of Appeal to review the case ... Attempts by the judiciary to prevent bail and desperate efforts of the prosecutor to increase the bail amount (instead of 150 thousand dollars for three prisoners - 150 thousand for each) did not give any result. Thanks to sustained and systematic public pressure on the federal court, daily Chicano demonstrations gave three of our brothers partial freedom. ”
The list of committee members includes such well-known names as Angela Davis, Ialf Aberieti, Jane Fonda. Thousands and thousands of Americans participated in fundraising to rescue three daredevils from behind bars Chicano, who spent more than two years in a prison in Atlanta (Georgia). However, this period was not wasted for them.
“I haven't written to you for a long time, because I spend most of my time studying,” one of the convicts, Rodolfo Sanchez, said to the Chicano readers from the pages of the La Gente newspaper. - Since I got here, in prison, I have had a lot of time to study, analyze and even (!) Criticize the goals to which we, representatives of the Chicano movement, strive in the interests of the entire working class, because we are.
As a result of my studies, I began to be aware of many facts of reality. And one of the most important among them, I would say even the most important, is the following: no movement aimed at the emancipation of the working class can remain alone or isolated. On the contrary, we must unite with all national and international movements of the working class that pursue the same goals as we do. It is for this reason that I have come to the conclusion that Chicano workers, Indian workers, Negro workers, workers of every color and every race must fight together for our common cause, for the cause of ridding workers of the habit of slave labor. And that is why I urge you, brothers, to be internationalists in thought and deed ... "
Our journey to the capital of the Dominican Republic began with a visit to underground lakes located in a cave in the Mirador del Este park.
This is a unique place - there used to be a bathhouse - for men, women, with ice water and a paradise lake - 4, it was here that some episodes of the film "Indiana Jones" were filmed. I really liked it here.
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The lakes are unique in that chemical composition lakes are different from each other and it affects the color of the water. Each lake has its own, so the lakes shimmer from aquamarine to greenish-yellow. Also inside the cave, stalactites have been preserved in excellent condition.
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The caves with lakes are located at a depth of 15 meters. The first lake is famous for its crystal clear water, rich in aquamarine color. The second is very small and greenish yellow. The third lake is located in a huge cave hall with stalactites, and you can ride a raft on it for an additional dollar. The roof of the cave with the fourth lake collapsed, and now it looks more like a volcano crater, on the slopes of which lush tropical greenery grows, and at the bottom, the purest cool water sparkles in the sun's rays.
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A raft will take you to the last lake.
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For just a few coins local, who, by the way, about 57 years old, will show you his attraction, namely, deftly climb the rocks and jump into the lake - it's worth it. I filmed all his movements - judge for yourself.
On way back you will be shown a stone dolphin - a naturally formed stone in the form of a dolphin from whose eyes tears flow. You should definitely stroke him and regret, and you can also make a wish - but only one thing and not material, but sublime, like I wish peace in the whole world.
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Here you can also meet a reptile that guards its nest and turtles leisurely swimming in one of the lake.
