Word: lisco
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...salvador army led an attack on a cooperative farm that was run by natives and deemed subversive by rich landowners. One of countless atrocities committed during the country's 1980-92 civil war, it would have gone unnoticed if not for the protests of Adrian Esquino Lisco, spiritual chief of El Salvador's tiny indigenous community. As a government investigation stalled and dissolved, Lisco's outcry over the massacre--in which soldiers tied the hands of more than 70 farmworkers and shot each in the head--made international news. Lisco later worked with U.S. Congressmen to help bring about...
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