Photo Stories, 1st prize
Héctor Rondón Lovera
02 June, 1962
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela Luis María Padillo, Puerto Cabello naval base chaplain, offers last rites to a loyalist soldier, said to be either Luis Antonio Rivera Sanoja or Andrés de Jesus Garcés, mortally wounded by a sniper during a military rebellion against President Romulo Bétancourt of Venezuela.
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