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...ordered the killings of six Jesuit priests and two women that rocked El Salvador in 1989? And who participated in the subsequent cover-up? Although a Salvadoran court last week held two army officers responsible for the murders and acquitted seven lower-ranking soldiers, the answers to those questions may never be resolved. With the government under U.S. pressure to punish the perpetrators, the convictions of a colonel and a lieutenant capped a 20-month investigation and three-day trial. But suspicions linger that the two officers may be fall guys for higher-ranking officers who plotted the predawn massacre...
...When Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani addressed the United Nations General Assembly last week, he predicted that 1991 would bring peace to his country. And high time too: a civil war involving the government and leftist guerrillas has left 75,000 dead in the past 12 years. Two days later, after 17 months of U.N.-brokered talks, the government and the rebels signed an agreement setting out a framework for reintegrating the rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into society and offering assurances for their safety...
...Policy in Central America. The public relations aspect of intelligence on Central America grew distinctly more noticeable after Gates became deputy director of the CIA, according to a September 1982 House intelligence committee report. The study cited a briefing on outside military aid to the Salvadoran guerrillas and a misleading CIA study on repression of Nicaraguan Indians as products whose main purpose seemed to be to "mobilize support for policy" rather than to inform...
...miles of my suburban home, for example, there is a factory where (until they got a union contract a year ago) the workers slept in their cars and bathed in the restroom -- because, at the minimum wage, housing was not an option. A few miles in the other direction, Salvadoran refugees get $125 in cash for 60-hour weeks of heavy outdoor labor. For them, upward mobility would be a busboy's job at $2.90 an hour plus a cut of the tips...
...lack of medical attention, but later suggested they were shot. In Washington officials said autopsy reports showed that two of the crew were killed with gunshots to the head. Both sides have motives for fudging the facts. The rebels do not want to upset peace talks with the Salvadoran government, and the Bush Administration is trying to rally support for its proposal to give El Salvador $42.5 million in new military...