Word: smuggler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using helicopters, horses and dune buggies, the patrolmen found eight men that evening-two dead, the rest barely alive. A ninth man, who may have been the chief Salvadoran smuggler, had fallen behind and was lost...
Next morning the rescue party found three women alive under a paloverde tree. Sprawled about them were the bodies of ten women and a smuggler. Suitcases had been ripped apart in a search for anything with moisture. The group had drunk perfume and aftershave lotion. Some had been hallucinating, swallowing sand they thought was water. One woman cried: "The coyotes stole my baby!" The agents scrambled to find the infant, only to learn days later that the child had been left in El Salvador...
Some of the four women among the 14 known survivors claimed that the smugglers had robbed and raped them, but later withdrew the accusations that apparently had been the result of hallucinations. One of the survivors continued to insist that she had tried but failed to stop the smuggler-who later died-from strangling four women who had begged to be put out of their misery...
...week's end Salvadoran Elias Nunez-Guardado, 26, and Mexican Mateo Preciado, 58, were being held on charges of transporting illegal aliens. Another smuggler made his way north to the town of Why and disappeared. Two other members of the party remain entirely unaccounted...