Word: gringa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1994, according to the police, Berenson arrived in Peru with a Panamanian arms dealer named Pacifico Castrellon and rented a three-story house in the Lima suburb of La Molina. She registered as a journalist, and her neighbors knew her only as a quiet gringa with a radiant smile. Berenson and Castrellon, Peruvian police say, were sent together to Peru to meet Miguel Rincon, second-in-command of the MRTA. Castrellon and Rincon, investigators told journalists, both have implicated Berenson. Castrellon says he and Berenson smuggled arms to the guerrillas through Central America; Rincon names her as his "foreign...
...story that someone had seen the butchered cadavers of eight children. For undisclosed reasons Larson was detained by police on March 7 in Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, 55 miles south of Guatemala City. An angry crowd of several hundred people soon gathered outside the jail, shouting, "Hang the gringa!" forcing police to evacuate Larson to another jail. The enraged rioters burned down the police station, set fire to vehicles and fought police until tanks rolled in to restore order. Larson was kept in "protective custody" for 19 days before she was found innocent of baby- trafficking charges and released. "One thing...