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...Salvador, you can have someone killed for less than $12. That's what I discovered two weeks ago, when I met other anti-sweatshop activists from Central America...
They told me chilling stories about the difficulties they encounter. One was a union organizer from El Salvador named Jiovanni. Just weeks ago, the company he was trying to organize told him how much it would cost to have him killed: 100 colones, which is the equivalent of about $11.40. What's that to this company, when every hat made in the sweatshops Jiovanni was trying to organize sells for $20? In the past months, this organizer has even been personally attacked by the president of El Salvador--for his efforts to improve conditions there. The national newspapers attacked...
Francisco Flores: In March, the philosophy professor, now 39, became President of El Salvador...
...California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead/They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot/Diphtheria and the flu/Excuse me--Great Nations coming through!"). The song's caustic end: that "some bug from out of Africa" might destroy America "like the great nations of Europe...
...Walsh will also have to reshuffle his defense, filling gaping holes in center, at third and at catcher. Shakir looks to see increased infield time, while freshman Josh San Salvador, who hit .267, may DH more to accommodate a shift to left field by Bridich...