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Allegations that Gonzalez Calderoni was compromised are not new. Federal officials themselves eventually accused the formerly coveted officer of corruption and murder. Gonzalez Calderoni fled to the United States, where he denied the charges and in turn accused the Mexican government of framing him because he had information about higher-level corruption. He was gunned down in Texas in 2003, in an as yet unsolved killing...
...Gallardo dedicates a large chunk of his writings to describing this detention in minute detail. He unleashes particular scorn on his arresting officer Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni, a "supercop" who shot down or nabbed several top drug lords in the 1980s. Félix Gallardo claimed that he had been a friend of Gonzalez Calderoni who, he said, once gave him a present of macaws, endangered birds. But, Félix Gallardo recalled, when he went to meet the policeman in a Guadalajara restaurant, some of his officers jumped him. "Three of them came at me and knocked...
...against the death penalty are constant; Parlia-ment declarations denouncing the punishment frequent. Just down the road in Rome, the Colosseum is regularly illuminated to honor death-penalty victims, and before Summers, Italy had twice allowed men executed in the U.S. to be buried in its soil. Says Caterina Calderoni, a Milan music teacher who'd campaigned on Summers' behalf since 1998: "America is still a young society, and some values that we've developed over centuries have still not matured...
Around 4 p.m., as the sky darkened, Summers was lowered into a 2-m-deep grave. Kok-de Bruijn and Calderoni, the two who had spent time with the deceased, were the only ones crying. Fuligno then stepped up onto the nearby pile of earth and invited mourners each to toss a handful of dirt onto the coffin, as his fellow Baptists always do. After hesitating, the onlookers began to step forward. And, slowly, the white casket adorned with the teenagers' magic-markered calligraphy disappeared under a layer of soft, brown earth...
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