Word: estella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Estella adds that she decided it was time to leave her three children and seek safety after she had been arrested by the Salvadoran national police twice and an urban battalion once. Two of the times Estella was arrested she was tortured with electric shocks, she says...
Through a Chicago-based task force heading the sanctuary movement. Estella hooked up with the underground railroad that would lead her to the Cambridge church after shutting her through various U.S. churches. She says her journey was difficult and recalls the Texas/Mexico border as an especially hard place to pass...
...addition to telling her audience about her arrests and subsequent torture. Estella explains that Americans killed her husband and administered her torture. "The people that tortured me were North Americans, I could tell by their accents and their behavior...
According to statistics tabulated by sanctuary officials in Chicago, 10,000 Salvadorans and Guatemalans have been deported back to their homelands by the U.S. government. Estella and church officials say they have received no indication that she is being stalked by immigration authorities...
...Estella stays inside the church most of the time to protect her identity. She wears a bandana in public and has only been outside of the church by herself for a total of 45 minutes during the last two weeks...