Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gone to pay bribes to stifle a four-year-old investigation of a major B.C.C.I. client, coffee smuggler and arms merchant Munther Bilbeisi. "If the $30 million was given to corrupt public officials and that can be proved, then the loan should be wiped out or reduced," says Fernando Arevalo Reina of the Guatemalan Attorney General's office. (Bilbeisi has denied any wrongdoing...
Heymann told the House that he had decided against continuing the project because Guatemalan President Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo had refused to investigate alleged political killings...
...much U.S. agents knew about the traffickers and their patrons in the government. A cartel bodyguard turned government witness testified that a few months before the abduction, Zuno told the other alleged conspirators that Camarena should be interrogated on what he knew about "my general," referring to General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, then Mexico's Secretary of Defense. U.S. officials claim that a transcript of a torture-interrogation session, which the kidnappers taped, shows that Camarena was asked about Arevalo. DEA agents hope that Zuno, who could receive a life sentence, will weaken and talk about other powerful people behind Camarena...