What were the trade union activities you were involved in, and for which vou were arrested.
worked in a large store in San Salvador. There was operating in ine store that filiated FENASTRAS trade union federation.
conditions for us workers. were very JOW. awful and they treated us very badly.
worked to irv and get our demands met, and became one of the leaders of the union in the store. That's why I began to be seen as danger the boss's interests, unal s wily I was lalel alesicu.
How were you arrested?
: one morning in December 1980. When I'd got two DIOCKS the road found myself surrounded by soldiers of the 1st Infantry Brigade.
From that moment the violence was pretty well constant. They grabbed hold of me violently and told me they were taking me away because I'd gol mixed up In 'stupidities' Mbs together the face tid and thumbs with a cord blindfolded my eyes.
Then they put me up against a wall cocking their rifles, said they might as well kill me there and then. All this happened in full view of the passers-by.
A. bit later, they shoved towards a pick-up truck, threw me in the back and drove off. I didn't know where to.
On the manhandling me obscenities about my body. They even pulled my trousers down. tried to resist they told me to 'keep quiet, you bitch, because you're in our hands now?
We arrived at the San Carlos barracks, although I didn't yet know that's where 1 was.
I was taken to a small room with a bed, alid blood-stained clothes in it. Here they changed the cord around my thumbs for hand-cuffs, with my hands behind my back, and I remained blindfolded.
I stayed like that for the five days 1. was there. I was questioned constantday and night, who continually threatened to kill me. insulted me, and hit me when I didn't give satisfactory answers For refused to hings they accused me of The would say things like 'where da you want us to leave your body?'.
For 'how you?', and so on.
was afsexually abused Our wages WCIC suosance oole human being so much.
beginning. 1 ney suddenly volvement was, the methods for you' rogator after totally exhausted.
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me ing to take me out and kill me started talking dreadful conditions, bed and rotting food all place.
that I was Women's Prison tions weren't much better.
man s us hardest negiect we suricicu.
reason for my arrest.
their admit the would you like us to kill They pulled my ears and breasts, grabbed my hair and beat my head hard against the desk betAlso as a form of punishment they me In the most disgusting way and threatened to do it again if I didn't give good answers 'During inese live days inev gave me nothing to eat, only on one occasion they brought me a tortilla with some it was because I was still blindfolded.
look one be our colton a cellae stuff down my throat. I felt complete. ly humilitated, they degraded you as a After that I was moved to the National Police barracks, where | was threatened and interrogated from the said, nere you re really going to tell us what your inwe're really going to get the truth out of you, we've got just I spent three days of questioning there, during which time they didn't let me rest for a moment, one interanother, until I was streets.
In these barracks too, torture and WCIC the methods used to extract statements.
blade machete across my neck and said they were going to lop my head off and chop me They put a pistol to my head and said that at 12 that night they were go- ana they did do a simulation, taking me out to a car and switching it on. But the motor wouldn't start so they said they'd have to do it the next day.
Then they took me to a cell with damp, with no over the I stayed there three months. After transferred to llopango where our condiThere were many restrictions and deprivations, but one thing which hit was the complete legal In my case, 1 spent two and a half years there without ever being told the How did you come to be released? their I was released on the 24 May 1983, "benefiting' from the amnesty decree. I had no warning, they just told me I was tree and had to leave althougn without any documents it was ex•SMOUN
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