Word: espino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigators are especially eager to identify Camarena's chief questioner, a man who spoke in the practiced manner of a police interrogator. At one point Camarena was heard answering him, "Si, comandante." Partly on the basis of informants' claims, DEA officials believe the comandante was Sergio Espino Verdin, formerly chief in Guadalajara of a secret police unit run by the Interior Ministry. Espino Verdin, yet another of those indicted last week, was arrested by Mexican police last year and charged with Camarena's murder. But authorities have vetoed the agency's requests for extensive samples of his voice on tape...
...State Department reacted angrily. The U.S., it said, "can find no reasonable basis" for the court's decision. "We do not consider the matter closed." Meanwhile, the violence goes on: the mutilated body of the Rev. Ernesto Fernández Espino, 37, a leader of El Salvador's Lutheran Church, was found last week in a village near San Miguel...
...problems at El Espino, a coffee cooperative on the outskirts of the capital of San Salvador, are of a somewhat different sort. El Espino's shareholders and their families, who number more than 1,000, have just been told that the government is planning to confiscate their best acreage to build four new military barracks and a training ground. José Eduardo González, 47, raised his six children on the plantation, and he is distraught about being forced to move. Like many of the farmers, he admits that living conditions were sometimes better under the old oligarchical...