"To prevent conflict, two military police officers escorted Schetino Valente through
the crowd. After Schetino Valente punched one of the officers in the face. Egg
ordered him handcuffed. Civil police officers who witnessed the incident
responded indignantly, telling the local press that "police don't arrest police." See
"Detectives radicals assumem atentado a bomba," Estado de Minas (Belo
Horizonte), February 13, 1995. 139 Statemen ..."
"Tila Municipality — Community of Nuevo Limar On August 21, 1996, some fifty
supporters of the PRD made their way on foot from the community of Nuevo
Limar, in the Tila lowlands, to the municipal capital of Salto de Agua, where they
asked the parish priest, Alan Jenkins, for refuge. Members of the six refugee
families told Human Rights Watch/Americas that their initial departure from
Nuevo Limar was blocked by some sixty civilian gu ..."
Guatemala De Leon Carpio's First Year by AnneManuel, 1371 Americas Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 1995 by Human Rights Watch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-137-4, ISBN: 1-56432-137-1
"... residents wrote to Defense Minister Mario Enriquez Morales asking for the
immediate dissolution of the Xemal patrols, removal of their army-issued
weapons, and the prosecution of those responsible for human rights violations.
General Enriquez wrote the villagers on January 13, 1994, stating that neither he
nor the president had the authority to respond to their pleas. They could not
dissolve the patrol, he stated, because to do ..."
"that 588 individuals had been the victim of extrajudicial executions over the year
and that another 140 had disappeared.4 A new civilian president, Jorge Serrano
Elias, took office on January 14, 1991. He, too ... The victims included Dinora
Perez Valdez, who had been a congressional candidate for a social democratic
political grouping in the November 1990 elections; Brother Moises Cisneros, of
the Marist order; Air Force General A ..."
"C. Juan Carlos Tejeda Tortola Amnesty International reported in April 1989 that
Juan Carlos Tejeda Tortola, a leader of a prisoners' revolt last year in the Pav6n
penitentiary outside Guatemala City, had been subjected to torture by prison
guards and prisoners acting under the orders of prison officials.** Amnesty noted
reports that Tejeda had been beaten, deprived of food and water for long periods,
subjected to threats and harass ..."
Update on El Salvador The Human Rights Crisis Continues in the Wake of the FMLN Offensive by Jemera Rone, AnneManuel 86 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-005-6, ISBN: 1-56432-005-7
"The police detained Josd Ram6n Reyes, the secretary of the Justice of the Peace
, along with professor Ruben Dario Alvarado, accusing them of being
subversives. Two other men, Julio Elias Sar- miento and Manuel Ponce, were
also detained, reportedly for having attended a wake for Perdomo. All four were
released the next day after being fingerprinted. In an interview with Tiempo more
than a month after his son was killed, the victim's ..."
"The victims were promptly driven to the hospital in Santa Ana where they
received emergency treatment which saved their lives. During their 15-day stay in
the hospital, ... Members of the co-op suspect that the former owners, the
Salaverria family, were behind the violence. The family has denied involvement.
... The Salaverria family lost two other haciendas in this part of the country to the
agrarian reform, and has been seeking t ..."
"Efrain Duarte Salgado, a Honduran, was seized May 1, 1983, Caballero says, by
a squad led by Flores Murillo and including Banegas, "Rolando de Cid," Lopez
Correa, "Mauricio Zelaya," "Nelson Colindres," "Marco Antonio Hernandez," and
Caballero. Before kidnapping Duarte, officials seized his comrade Marco Antonio
Flores near the border with Nicaragua. Flores was taken to "Las Tapias" where
he was tortured and interrogated. Armed with ..."
"The victims were identified as Alberta Barahona Martinez, 16, Josef ina Martinez,
16, Maria Argue ta, 18, and Agapito Guevara, 30. Although at least two guerrillas
were in the town at the time of the attack, none were near these four victims ..."
Checks and Balances?(Illustrated) How a Parliamentary System Could Change American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics) by Paul Christopher Manuel, Anne Marie Cammisa Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1998 by Westview Press Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3026-6, ISBN: 0-8133-3026-2