Word: regalario
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...that coerces support and suppresses criticism. Others are shocked when the guerrillas destroy businesses belonging to people who have refused to pay N.P.A. "taxes." Most important, many who may initially welcome the "instant justice" guerrillas apply to abusive individuals change their minds as vengeance turns capricious and arbitrary. Salve Regalario, a guerrilla who surrendered to the military in September 1983, described the interrogation of Elmundo Serrano, a farmer accused of complicity with the military during a raid. "He would not admit he was an informer, so he was beaten. Finally he had so many wounds that I shot him." Regalario...
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