Looking into El Salvador

A new battle of political statements has begun— this time about El Salvador. Most of those I’ve seen appear to be little more than rewritings of statements produced in the ’60s about Vietnam, and this doesn’t encourage one to rush in with a signature. So here are a few remarks based on a reading of whatever I could find that might help people on the democratic left orient themselves to the conflict in El Salvador. My knowledge of that country is probably no greater or smal...