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3 unusual facts about Paul del Rio


Paul del Rio

A Spanish movie entitled "Real, La Película" ("Real, The Movie") which recounted these events was released in August 25, 2005.

On the night of August 24th, 1963, at the age of 19 as leader of a Venezuelan revolutionary group the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), he kidnapped famed Argentine football (soccer) player Alfredo Di Stéfano at gunpoint for three days from the Potomac Hotel in Caracas while his team, Real Madrid, were on a pre-season tour of South America.

The Venezuelan Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso was the founder of OPEC, an idea he conceived while exiled in the United States during his review of the Texas Railroad Commission.



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