Word: picana
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Picana. By such jostling and jailing, Perón has so far avoided setting up concentration camps. But at least 97 prisoners were held in three Buenos Aires political detention centers last week, imprisoned without charge or hearing for eight months or more. From such Argentines, suspected of having important conspiratorial knowledge, Political Order extracts information with the aid of a simple device called la picana, a hot electric wire applied to the blindfolded victim...
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