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Nachtwey does not discount the risks he takes. "I've had close calls on "almost every assignment, and was wounded by a land mine in El Salvador in 1982," he says. "After a while, you tend not to think about the danger. But when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing...
...element in the Central American debate emerged last week as the Pentagon confirmed that a U.S. destroyer and frigate had begun a "coastal surveillance exercise" off the Gulf of Fonseca, which borders Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. The mission is to disrupt the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. Pentagon officials stressed that the U.S. ships would remain outside Nicaraguan waters, pro viding only radar assistance to Salvadoran and Honduran naval patrols that attempt to intercept the arms smugglers. Nonetheless, congressional staffers in Washington decried the exercise as "yet another step" toward direct...
...country's capital, Tegucigalpa. Palmerola is the temporary home of some 300 members of the U.S. 224th Military Intelligence Battalion and of about a dozen unarmed U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft. The mission of the top-secret 224th is known to include spy flights over parts of neighboring El Salvador, which provide information for the Salvadoran armed forces in their war against antigovernment guerrillas...
Salvadorans joined "long, serpentine polling lines" not to show their defiance of the leftist Liberation Front but because they were afraid of official repression. In El Salvador it is illegal not to participate in the election. The Defense Minister declared that not voting was an act of treason, and in El Salvador you get shot for treason. Under such conditions, anyone would be eager to vote...
...Miami Herald covers its parlous territory as thoroughly and fearlessly as any other city daily, whether in exposing racial discrimination in housing or in probing terrorist acts by anti-Castro Cuban exiles. But it does more. Its reportage of Latin America, aided by bureaus in Rio de Janeiro, San Salvador and, soon, Managua, is among the very best...