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Just as President Bush plans to visit Central America, the demons of corruption, drug dealing and murder there that have long been kept under wraps, either by official complicity or negligence, are beginning to attract public scrutiny. Eight brazen and grisly murders -three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver, and four Guatemalan policemen -have shaken the two countries' governments and shed light on the criminal underworld operating with impunity from inside police forces...
...escape from the Venezuelan prison in 1985, he went to El Salvador, where he reunited with the CIA. He went to work assisting Oliver North in providing the Nicaraguan Contras with weapons and supplies. After his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair, Posada worked as a spy for then Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The court documents indicate Posada traveled around the Americas on false passports and that his line of work could be life-threatening. During a brief stint in Guatemala in 1990, he became the target of an assassination attempt and was shot several times in the face...
...known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The Spanish-language army facility based in Fort Benning, Georgia, was responsible for helping to educate such military men as Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega, the late Argentine junta leader imprisoned for human rights abuses Leopoldo Galtieri, and Salvadoran right-wing militia leader Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson. Despite adding a "human rights" element to its curriculum in recent years, the school has engendered so much suspicion and hostility that it was dubbed the School of Assassins...
...small but determined group of demonstrators stood in the rain outside the Harvard Faculty Club Saturday afternoon to protest a conference on El Salvador at which Rene Leon, the Salvadoran ambassador to the U.S., was speaking. The sound of cars on the wet pavement of Quincy Street mingled with the chanting of the Boston branch of the national Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). To protest the “Salvadorans in the World” convention, the small group rallied with cries of “Leon, escucha!” “Escucha?...
...Travolta, that asked what if America was Afrocentric-based instead of Eurocentric. We spent so much time exploring the issue that the story suffered.”This explains the aspect of “Innocent Voices” that is most likely to irritate those interested in the Salvadoran civil war: the film never explains why the combatants are fighting in the first place. Instead, it keeps a close focus on Chava and his family. “To tell the story through the eyes of a child, to see war through the eyes of a child, is just...