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Anyone familiar with Latino writing will be impressed by the distinguished authors included; the all-star cast includes such notables as Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Anzaldua, Jesus Colon and Rudolfo Anaya. But this book is only an introduction to the prose of these talented writers and often omits some of their best and most representative work...
Acts of clemency have become a rarity in a political environment that rewards unflinching toughness. Only lame-duck Governors like Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller in 1971 and New Mexico's Toney Anaya in 1986 could afford the moral luxury of commuting the sentences of everyone on death row. Former California Governor Edmund (Pat) Brown wrote a 1989 book reliving his clemency deliberations, in which he saved 23 men from the gas chamber and spurned appeals from 36 others, including Caryl Chessman, whose 1960 execution sparked major protests. "The longer I live," declared Brown, now 85, "the larger loom those 59 decisions...
Already there is fear that the death squads may increase their activity to stall any moves against D'Aubuisson. No one doubts the squads still roam the countryside and prowl city streets. In late October, Herbert Anaya, president of the nongovernmental Commission for Human Rights, was gunned down in San Salvador. His death led to cancellation of cease-fire talks between the government and the guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N...
...thing, Duarte needed a counterbalance to the Anaya murder, which has badly damaged his reputation for curbing the senseless violence. Second, in the event of violent clashes between left and right, the President would have scapegoats to blame for El Salvador's failure to live up to the strictures of the Central American peace accord. "Everyone wants to jockey for p.r. advantage," says a U.S. State Department official. "They seem to have figured out that when the January deadline ((for the peace plan)) rolls around, no one will be in complete compliance. So the thing to do is appear...
...many leftists are no more willing to forgive the 40,000 slayings attributed to the death squads than members of the military are able to forget their eight-year war against the guerrillas. One more political murder rocked El Salvador last week. Herbert Anaya Sanabria, 33, president of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission, was about to drive two of his children to school last week when two men approached him. Armed with revolvers, they shot him dead, then fled in a pickup truck. President Jose Napoleon Duarte suggested that leftists may have fired the shots to sabotage peace talks...