Photo Stories, 1st prize
Héctor Rondón Lovera
02 June, 1962
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela Dead and wounded loyalist soldiers at the Puerto Cabello naval base during the military rebellion against President Romulo Bétancourt of Venezuela.
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