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The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“To the trenches! (A las trincheras! in Spanish)”
On election night, November 4, 1980, in a call to his supporters to protest the election results after a controversial loss to his opponent, Carlos Romero Barceló by 3,503 votes. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922256-1,00.html
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