Word: ana
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TIME has learned, though, that the arrests were a frame-up to placate the U.S. According to "official sources" cited by Guatemalan newspapers, the police were led to the killers' trail largely by the testimony of one witness: Sister Ana Maria Gonzales Arias, a Mexican nun working as a missionary in Santiago Atitlán. Sister Gonzales was said to have told officials that she saw "various armed men" wearing hoods enter the church, where they were discovered by Father Rother apparently while they were "seeking to rob the church's money...
...thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged, "Don't shoot Mama!" Miranda was killed in a hail of bullets. Next night, 50 armed men searched the home of Salvador Rivera Hernandez...
...hours since the curfew was imposed in mid-January in an attempt to control El Salvador's guerrilla war. Most of the victims, according to the Human Rights Commission in San Salvador, were not dangerous insurgents but innocent civilians: some mentally retarded, aimless drunks, a milkman in Santa Ana who started his morning rounds too early. Nevertheless, military and security forces are enthusiastic about being able to deny the hours of darkness to the guerrillas, and thus to uncover arms caches by observing suspicious nighttime activity. "It is fantastic," said a police major. "We should have instituted...
Having tasted blood and victory, the army's counterinsurgency forces were in no mood for mercy. In one mopping-up operation around Santa Ana, the scene of some of the heaviest fighting, government troops claimed to have killed a column of 97 leftists, including 21 women, two doctors, an engineer, and several employees from a local power company. As usual they took no prisoners...
Another key member of the commission is Ana Guadalupe Martinez, a hardening revolutionary who became El Salvador's best-known guerrilla commandante after she posed for a propaganda poster with a rifle cocked on her hip. The diminutive, 28-year-old former medical student left school in 1972 to join the People's Revolutionary Army, El Salvador's second largest guerrilla group. In 1976 she was captured by national police, raped and tortured during nine months in a secret prison...