Puerto Hurraco massacre  The Puerto Hurraco massacre was a mass murder that occurred on the afternoon of Sunday, 26 August 1990 in Puerto Hurraco, a village in Benquerencia de la Serena, municipality in the Province of Badajoz, (Extremadura, Spain). It has 135 inhabitants (200 in summer). The perpetrators were the brothers, Emilio and Antonio Izquierdo, members of the "Izquierdo family", who murdered 9 people in the streets of their hometown, some of them belonged to their rivals, the "Cabanillas family" (two girls of 13 and 14 years old among them), and caused serious injuries to 12 others. The two then fled, but were arrested next morning and eventually sentenced each to 684 years in prison, where they died aged 72 and 74. The quarrels between the Cabanillas (called "the Amadeos") and Izquierdo families (the "Patas Pelás") arose from a boundary dispute in 1967, when Amadeo Cabanillas entered with a plough on a farm owned by Manuel Izquierdo in Puerto Hurraco. There was also, at that time, a history of unrequited love between Amadeo Cabanillas and Luciana Izquierdo; both fell in love, but he finally refused to marry her, a fact that affected Luciana very much. A few days after the rejection, on January 22, 1967, Amadeo Cabanillas was murdered by Jerónimo Izquierdo, the oldest of the Izquierdo brothers, who was imprisoned for this crime and served a 14-year sentence. As soon as Jerónimo Izquierdo met his sentence in 1986, he returned to Puerto Hurraco aiming to avenge the death of his elderly mother, Isabel Izquierdo Caballero, who died two years earlier in a fire in her house on the street Carrera No. 9, on October 18, 1984. The Izquierdo family blamed Antonio Cabanillas, brother of Amadeo, for being the author of the crime; even though the police investigation did not find perpetrator. That is the reason why Jerónimo tried to kill Antonio with a knife, seriously injuring him, although he managed to survive. As a result Jerónimo Izquierdo entered the psychiatric hospital on August 8, 1986, and died nine days later. On Sunday, 26 August 1990, six years after the fire and four years after the stabbing of Antonio Cabanillas by Jerónimo Izquierdo, his two brothers, Emilio and Antonio Izquierdo, aged 56 and 52 respectively, said goodbye to their sisters, Ángela and Luciana Izquierdo in their house in Monterrubio de la Serena, assuring that "We are going to hunt turtledoves".