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Pablo Alvarado todav?a recuerda el terror que sinti? hace 13 a?os en Woodland Hills, California, cuando, a?n siendo un joven indocumentado salvadore?o, cinco autos de polic?a con sirenas y luces encendidas lo detuvieron porque los nerviosos residentes de la zona pensaron que ?l era un criminal. Eventualmente Alvarado los convenci? de que estaba all? en busca de un trabajo ofrecido por uno de los vecinos. "Todos los d?as los trabajadores se ven obligados a pasar por cosas como ?stas y peores", dice Alvarado. Como coordinador de la National Day Laborer Organizing Network durante los ?ltimos tres a?os, Alvarado...
Ever since 13 relaxed patrons, including four U.S. Marine embassy guards, were machine-gunned to death by guerrillas in San Salvador's Zona Rosa cafe last June, American officials have been talking about retribution. A reward of $100,000 was even offered by the State Department for the perpetrators. When pressed last week about why nothing more had been done, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger made what seemed a surprising revelation. "The Salvadoran government with our assistance," he claimed, "has taken care of--in one way or another--a number of people who participated in that killing." About two weeks after...
Reports from El Salvador, however, soon cast doubt on whether the retaliation hit those directly responsible for the June attack. Said one U.S. military observer: "As far as saying 'This guy was at the Zona Rosa,' if that is the case I don't know it." A Salvadoran military spokesman said, more conclusively, that the rebels captured and killed "were not specifically the ones responsible." With that, Weinberger's office backpedaled a bit. "He was not intending to say that we had identified the actual triggermen," a spokesman explained. At week's end the State Department said the reward offer...
...elegant Paseo de la Reforma as crowds thronged its tiled, tree-lined sidewalks. Piles of rubble from the country's Sept. 19 earthquake, which killed some 20,000 people and shattered the lives of tens of thousands more, had been bulldozed from the bustling avenue that borders the Zona Rosa, the luxury shopping and sightseeing district. Something akin to normalcy seemed to have returned to the world's biggest megalopolis (pop. about 18 million...
...infirmary where one of his friends lay nearing the end. "I know I'm finished," the friend said, "but I want you to tell my wife one thing. Tell her I had the joy of knowing the war is over." -- By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Michael Adler/Paris and Zona Sparks/New York