Word: zavala
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...talking U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, could barely contain his rage as he tersely announced that the search for Enrique Camarena Salazar had ended. Camarena, a U.S. citizen and an eleven-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, had been kidnaped by four gunmen in Guadalajara early last month. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a pilot who flew Camarena on many of his DEA missions, had been abducted later that same day. The bodies of the men, Gavin said, were discovered by the side of a road near a ranch about 100 miles from Guadalajara. They had been severely beaten, and bound, gagged...
Three days afterward, DEA agents and Mexican police searched the 30-acre ranch and its surroundings but found no sign of Camarena and Zavala. But that evening, a peasant youth discovered the two plastic bags about ten yards from a highway that runs past the Bravo ranch. The corpses had apparently been dumped there after the agents left the ranch. The soil found on the bags was not common to the immediate area. Investigators concluded that the bodies had been buried, disinterred and brought to the ranch so they could be found there...
...officials believe the Mexican authorities received an anonymous letter, but think that the overzealous officers might have opened fire on the Bravo house without sufficient provocation. Needing to justify the carnage, the police could have planted the cocaine in the home and later placed the bodies of Camarena and Zavala near- by. If this were the case, the federal police must have known who had kidnaped, killed and buried...
Every day I always met Bobby in front of the school building and everyday. I noticed he had a different bruise on his face or arms and sometimes on his neck. Everyday it was the same story he always fell from something. Carmel Zavala, grade 7 Crystal City...
...scream for help: "Dad please stop, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please stop! "His father just yelled at him saying. "Shut up boy, you'll pay for what you did!" Finally the man went inside leaving behind a boy crying in pain and fear," writes the seventh grader. Zavala writes without sentimentality but with feeling: the strength in her writing is characteristic of the book...