Salvadoran Victim of Terrorists Tells of New Threat
Yanira Corea, the 21-year-old Salvadoran leftist who was the first victim of a series of Central American death squad-style incidents in Los Angeles in July, said she received a new written threat in New York on Wednesday while on a national speaking tour.
A piece of paper addressed to her was slipped under the door of Madre, the organization sponsoring the tour, as she was being interviewed inside, a Madre spokesman said. On it was a drawing of a child with a head next to it, Corea said. A scrawled message said, “Do you know where and how your son is?”
Madre, a national nonprofit group, sponsors exchanges and technical assistance programs involving women in Central America.
Corea said she also received a telephone threat last month warning that if she embarked on the tour, her 3-year-old son would be killed.
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