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James Casbolt · 02-06-2009, 03:29 PM

[B]Please take note of the words 'KIDNAPPED AND HELD ON MILITARY BASE IN QUEZALTENANGO'- Can anyone find any photos on the net of this base? It may shed light on the jungle op when I was ten years old
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Edwin Quiñónes Morales, 45, has been living in exile from Guatemala for almost twenty years. When he left in 1984, he was a comerciante, a new father and a member of the clandestine political opposition.

His decision to flee Guatemala came on the heels of the abduction and murder by security forces of a relative of his wife, Lucrecia. It was the third attack on her family - in 1981, at the height of the violence of the Lucas García regime, Lucrecia's 21-year-old sister, Emma, was kidnapped and held on a military base in Quezaltenango. She managed to escape with her life. Their brother Marco Antonio, 14, was not so fortunate. One day later, he was disappeared by members of the security forces. He has never been seen since.

Edwin and Lucrecia decided to take their infant son Julio and flee by foot into Mexico. They chose Mexico, Edwin recalls, because of its reputation as a tolerant and democratic nation. The country had opened refugee camps in the south for the waves of mostly Mayan Indians escaping the violence in Guatemala, and permitted members of the country's political opposition to live safely in the capital.

But less than three months after arriving in Mexico City with his family, Edwin and two of his compañeros were arrested by Mexican security forces. The men were held incommunicado for days in a clandestine cell in the Federal Security Directorate (DFS, the Interior Secretariat's domestic intelligence apparatus) and tortured. DFS chief José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez himself directed the interrogation sessions. After three weeks of detention, Quiñónes and his companions were deported to Cuba and told not to return to Mexico for ten years. His wife and child rejoined him eight months later, when they managed a rendezvous in Nicaragua.

Edwin Quiñónes Morales spoke to Proceso by telephone from Costa Rica, where he now lives with Lucrecia and Julio. It is the first time he has ever spoken publicly of his experience at the hands of the Mexicans.

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02-06-2009, 03:29 PM	#620
James Casbolt Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 867	Re: James Casbolt:Underground U.K. bases! [B]Please take note of the words 'KIDNAPPED AND HELD ON MILITARY BASE IN QUEZALTENANGO'- Can anyone find any photos on the net of this base? It may shed light on the jungle op when I was ten years old -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [/Surviving Exile Edwin Quiñónes Morales, 45, has been living in exile from Guatemala for almost twenty years. When he left in 1984, he was a comerciante, a new father and a member of the clandestine political opposition. His decision to flee Guatemala came on the heels of the abduction and murder by security forces of a relative of his wife, Lucrecia. It was the third attack on her family - in 1981, at the height of the violence of the Lucas García regime, Lucrecia's 21-year-old sister, Emma, was kidnapped and held on a military base in Quezaltenango. She managed to escape with her life. Their brother Marco Antonio, 14, was not so fortunate. One day later, he was disappeared by members of the security forces. He has never been seen since. Edwin and Lucrecia decided to take their infant son Julio and flee by foot into Mexico. They chose Mexico, Edwin recalls, because of its reputation as a tolerant and democratic nation. The country had opened refugee camps in the south for the waves of mostly Mayan Indians escaping the violence in Guatemala, and permitted members of the country's political opposition to live safely in the capital. But less than three months after arriving in Mexico City with his family, Edwin and two of his compañeros were arrested by Mexican security forces. The men were held incommunicado for days in a clandestine cell in the Federal Security Directorate (DFS, the Interior Secretariat's domestic intelligence apparatus) and tortured. DFS chief José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez himself directed the interrogation sessions. After three weeks of detention, Quiñónes and his companions were deported to Cuba and told not to return to Mexico for ten years. His wife and child rejoined him eight months later, when they managed a rendezvous in Nicaragua. Edwin Quiñónes Morales spoke to Proceso by telephone from Costa Rica, where he now lives with Lucrecia and Julio. It is the first time he has ever spoken publicly of his experience at the hands of the Mexicans. B]