Although the military claimed that the death was an accident, witnesses who saw the body say that it had been mutilated with the testicles cut off and the face battered (Americas Watch Report: Honduras Without the Will, 1989).COL Leonel Riera Lunati, 1963, Cadet; 1967, Military Intelligence; 1967, CounterintelligenceSuspected links to drug-trafficking: According to Juan Arancibia of the Institute