Word: estella
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...Estella, using the three-syllable psuedonym to protect herself and her family in Central America, has been living in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church for two weeks to escape federal agents who want to deport her to El Salvador...
...days after arriving in Cambridge, "Estella" sits fumbling with her hands and waiting for a translator to relay a message to her in Spanish...
...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...