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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tall One," or "the Mustachioed One." In South America, such aliases as El Aleman (the German), Cara de Culebra (Snake Face) and El Carnicero (the Butcher) are common. One particularly brutal torturer at Chile's Tejas Verdes camp near San Antonio used to tell prisoners his name was Pata en la Raja, meaning Kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Macabre World of Words and Ritual | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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