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On October 2, 1993 what was a peaceful standoff between deposed officers in the hotel and activist groups outside turned violent.
12016-03-03T13:05:42-08:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e381806plain2016-03-25T10:58:10-07:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e3Fire opened around dawn and included rifle, machine gun, and canon fire raining down upon the hotel. The besieged officers in the Hotel Nacional surrendered around 5:30 in the evening. For the insurgent groups, they certainly saw a natural relationship between the deposed officers and the Hotel Nacional. They most likely equated the Hotel Nacional with the Machadato, corruption, and pandering to U.S. interests, and likewise saw the military as the complicit enforcer of all of this. Attacking a building that was projected to be the national hotel of the country certainly symbolized the groups’ rejection of government-defined nationalism.
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12016-03-03T13:05:00-08:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e3Photo of the Hotel Nacional after the violence of October 2, 19331Collection of the New-York Historical Societymedia/1NacionalBombedFacade2NYHS.jpgplain2016-03-03T13:05:00-08:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e3
