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Preparing for a convention of electrical engineers, workers at San Salvador's Sheraton Hotel last week covered up some grisly mementos: bullet holes in a wall of the dining room, where a Salvadoran labor leader and two Americans working for agricultural reform were murdered one night 21 months ago. Even as paint and plaster were being applied, there were complaints of another cover-up in what has come to be known as the "agreform murders." On grounds of insufficient evidence, Salvadoran Judge Héctor Enrique Jiménez Zaldivar on Oct. 1 released an army officer accused...
...specialist, and Lawyer Mark David Pearlman, 36, were in El Salvador on assignment for the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin-American arm. The third victim, José Rodolfo Viera, 43, was both head of the farmworkers' union and president of the Salvadoran institute for Agrarian Transformation. The institute was empowered under 1980 laws to take land from the country's propertied oligarchy and redistribute it among Salvadoran peasants, a program fiercely resented by the ruling families...
...complied with a list of demands ranging from nationalization of the school system to the release of 80 political prisoners. The government retorted that there were no political prisoners in Honduras. Moreover, it said, many of the people listed 'by the guerrillas were living abroad, and one, a Salvadoran rebel known as Comandante Alejandro Montenegro, was actually in custody in his own country...
Cero a la Izquierda, a collective of Salvadoran filmmakers, produced these documentaries about the war and its effects on life in the FMLA-controlled Morazan region in northeastern El Salvador. The first, Morazan, depicts the running of a makeshift outdoor guerilla munitions camp. It opens with a group of teenagers solemnly passing out rifles and pistols, which they then use in mock-combat drills. The fact that the FMLA would allow the filming of a place where their guns and bombs are produced plainly indicates the political orientation of the filmmakers. But this in no way detracts from the value...
Superb cinematography helped Decision To Win gather awards last year in Germany, Spain, France and Latin America. But technical expertise aside, the American premiere of Decision to Win may rekindle some interest in the now subdued debate over the millions of U.S. dollars spent to support the Salvadoran government...