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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...
...ever, be punished. For that reason, the AFL-CIO last week in Washington revealed details of the killings and their aftermath that had not yet been made public. Two of the victims, Michael Peter Hammer, 42, an agrarian reform 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...
According to the investigation jointly conducted by the AFL-CIO and the Salvadoran government, the killers were José Dimas Valle Acevedo, 35, and Santiago Gómez González, 32, ex-corporals in El Salvador's national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming...
...sudden wave was the result of two currents of floodwater joining forces on the side of the volcano just above the town, followed minutes later by the collapse of a temporary road-construction dam. The disaster, El Salvador's worst since a 1965 earthquake, followed four days of heavy rains that have devastated El Salvador and parts of Guatemala killing some 1,000 people. As much as 40% of El Salvador's basic food crops has been destroyed, and damage is estimated at $250 million...
...sort of genre of the late 20th century: the massacre shots. We see the crumpled litter of bodies, the familiar, companionably mounded flesh reposing on the bare dirt in the sun in a stunned fatal sprawl. The inarticulate carrion aftermath. We have seen them in Viet Nam and El Salvador and Uganda and Rhodesia and God knows where. My Lai is the primordial scene of the type. The same evil black bats burst flapping out of the pictures, into the brain, and each time the mind flinches and contracts and sickens and grieves for a moment. And yet, unless...