Death squads said to target youths
Slayings of young men go unsolved in Central America
VILLA NUEVA, Guatemala -- Thirteen-year-old Kevin García and his friends were playing soccer on a sunny afternoon last October when a white Isuzu Trooper without license plates screeched to a halt alongside the barrio's cheek-by-jowl cinderblock and tin shanties, neighbors say. Armed men in unmarked black uniforms and sunglasses leaped out and ordered the teenagers to the ground. (Full article: 729 words)
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