Word: carrasco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they cannot help being excited by the dancing, which expresses, in spontaneous but disciplined and concentrated movement, the passions of the Gypsy soul. Eduardo Serrano crosses the stage with the lacy delicacy of a tightrope walker before erupting in a virile drumbeat, a machine gun, of toe tapping. Manuela Carrasco draws all eyes with an ethereal hauteur that is only accentuated by the jackhammer snap of her commanding heels and the swirl of her long ruffled gown. Some are known chiefly by their nicknames, which, according to Gypsy custom, are short and pungent: El Chocolate, for example, or El Biencasao...
...campaign of intimidation extended to murder, though no government involvement has so far been proved. Early one morning last week a white van pulled up outside the apartment building of Jose Carrasco Tapia, 43, foreign editor of the anti-Pinochet magazine Analisis. Two men, dressed in civilian clothes and carrying automatic weapons, dragged Carrasco away without his shoes. "You're not going to need them," his wife quoted them as saying...
...Carrasco's body was found outside a cemetery later that day. He had been shot in the head 13 times. Two other men, a schoolteacher and an electrician with links to the left, met similar fates. A fourth man, an accountant who was not a known leftist, was also taken half-dressed from his home and killed. The government denied any role in the abduction-murders. About 600 people, many of them journalists, gathered in a cemetery in Santiago last Wednesday to accompany Carrasco's funeral cortege to his grave. Police dispersed them with tear gas and water cannon...