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Death of an Anthropologist

An unusual cartoon appeared recently in a Guatemalan newspaper. It showed the small figure of Helen Mack swinging a hammer, chipping away at a towering brick wall that symbolized more than thirty-seven years of military impunity. Helen Mack is leading her family’s investigation of the September 1990 assassination of her sister, Myrna…

Major command shake-up likely in Salvadoran army

The changes will mark the ascent to power of the Salvadoran military’s academy class of 1966, the so-called tandona, or ‘big class.’