Charles Edward Russell was one of the great US correspondents of the 1900s. He wrote for the New York Herald and was the author of several books, including The Uprising of the Many, Lawless Wealth, Songs of Democracy and Why I
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Some years ago social psychologist Ignacio Martin Baro wrote that in El Salvador government officials had imposed an "institutionalised lie" upon society, which he defined in general terms as "the systematic screening of
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"What kind of a person would become a torturer? What kind of a person would become a member of the death squads?", journalist Superna Aggarwal asked former Treasury Police officer Rene Hurtado. "Anyone", he replied, "You can
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Have the media in Australia ever been "democratic"? Regular readers of Green Left Weekly would probably answer, "No: that's why I read GLW". I agree. But there are other media that also qualify under the "democratic"
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Herbert Anaya Sanabria, president of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES), was gunned down by "unknown" assassins in the Zacamil neighbourhood in San Salvador on October 26, 1987. The
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March 15 was a historic date for El Salvador. The Truth Commission, made up of US jurist Thomas Buergenthal, Colombian ex-president Belisario Betancur and Venezuela's former foreign minister, Reinaldo Figueredo, released
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For the past three months the political situation in El Salvador has been focused on government's failure to comply with some points of the peace accords, and the consequent delay in their implementation by the Farabundo
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Every day, in the cities or in the countryside, at places of work, factories, farm cooperatives, schools and marginal communities, Salvadorans gather in small circles for a daily ritual — to tune in to Radio Farabundo