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...drug cops were encouraged by the extradition last month of one of the cartel's top bosses, distribution maestro Everardo (Kiti) Paez Martinez, whom Mexican police had arrested nearly four years ago. The extradition--the first ever of a Mexican citizen to the U.S.--caused celebration among jaded U.S. agents because Paez is a potential gold mine of cartel intelligence. Coming one year after the arrest of Ramon's partner in gore, Ismael Higuera Guerrero, who carried a special knife for his stylized mutilations, the Paez extradition makes it harder for the Arellano brothers to circulate freely through the streets...
...32nd day of her hunger strike, the American Embassy in Guatemala issued a demarche in which the U.S. government acknowledged Everardo was captured alive, Harbury said...
Harbury then returned to Washington to push for sanctions against the Guatemalan government, but to no avail. During another hunger strike in Washington, D.C. in 1995, Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) told Harbury that a Guatemalan General on the CIA's payroll ordered Everardo's execution...
Based on documents she obtained, Harbury said she thinks Everardo was tortured for one year, drugged by military doctors and kept in a full body cast to prevent his escape before he was murdered...
Harbury's latest book, "Searching for Everardo: A story of love, war, and the CIA in Guatemala," is sold at bookstores in the square. Harbury donates proceeds from its sale to the Everardo Foundation, which she founded to help implement the 1996 Guatemalan Peace Accords