Letter from El Salvador

Inside a small and somewhat shabby little office building in a rundown part of San Salvador, a group of activists is beginning a political experiment that may shape the course of events in Central America for years to come. The group is called the Democratic Convergence, and its most active and articulate leader, Ruben Zamora, is a democratic socialist who fled El Salvador after a rightist death squad brutally murdered his brother Mario in 1980. Having returned along with other leftist democrats in November 1987, Zamora is now embarked on the risky and complicated task of organizing a popular, democratic, civil movement. It is an effort whose next step will be participation in El Salvador’s presidential elections next March. Righ...