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"I think he had the unique ability of making people fall in love with his ideas. And that was what made him such an attractive, engaging person. He would come up to you and embrace you."
What has been most shocking to acquaintances of the victims is that they were not politicians, but academics. But the forces behind the massacre reveal a brutal history in Salvadoran politics that frequently leads to academic repression.
"He basically was doing an inventory of methods of non-violent struggle as they are manifested in an extremely hostile environment," says Christopher Kruegler, associate program director for the Program on Nonviolent sanctions. "There's some irony in the fact that he was studying the phenomenon which ultimately claimed his...
Former director of LASPAU John Mullaney remembers Martin-Baro's enthusiasm for LASPAU. "When Padre Nacho came here he said that he admired LASPAU and the Fulbright Exchange as the best foreign policy program of the United States in El Salvador."
Associates say Montes was a more reserved person. "The Jesuits have a phrase that would describe him--'contemplative in action.' He was a very spiritual man as well as an academic," Mullaney says. "But he was always out in the fields getting his hands dirty with the displaced people, the...