The line says killed those like............It could be argued that the wiggle room there states that who was killed were farmers like Viera and Romera. I would think that if that's the case that the author would come up with a few specific names, but I'm still waiting for 100,000 killed in mass graves in Bosnia and 100,000 additional cops where the Buffalo roam.
I got into several arguments with editors over that. Careful parsing does not support the overall implication that Reagan was behind the murders but the impression was there.