Comment
AIDS in Brazil I was glad to see the article on the AIDS situation in Brazil in your Nov./ Dec. 1989 issue. Unfortunately, your author makes the peculiar statement, "but only one gay...
...Many have asked how someone as brilliant as Ignacio Ellacurfa could have thought it safe for the priests to remain in their residence...
...Tourism, the conditions of refugees and the destruction of Indian culture also receive careful examination...
...Nor has any progress been made in locating four leaders of the San Cayetano El Rosario Cooperative, apparently detained more than a month ago by soldiers under the command of Col...
...Yet a NACLA reader would know none of this...
...Sendero has, despite increasing military intervention, constantly gained power and spread across the country...
...Leaders of the popular movement and political leaders such as Rub6n Zamora and Guillermo Ungo went into hiding...
...by Carlos P. Otero, Black Rose Books, 1989, 779 pp., $44.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper...
...The January 12 murder of social democratic leader Hector Oquelf Colindres in Guatemala sent a chilling message and also seems to provide hard evidence of coordination between the Salvadoran and Guatemalan ultraRight...
...I am afraid that NACLA is missing the revolution now taking place in Peru...
...The issue on homelessness capsules an incident which makes Sendero look like an enemy of under the auspices of the army, have killed 8,000 grassroots activists since 1986...
...And why wouldn't they think so...
...A reflective memoir that explores the texture of everyday realities in warthe people...
...In this series of previously unpublished interviews spanning 20 years, Chomsky expounds on the intersection of language and radical politics...
...Jeff Keith Philadelphia From San Salvador Here in San Salvador, Cristiani's announcement that four officers and five soldiers were arrested for the murders of the Jesuits (clearly timed to precede the congressional debate over U.S...
...In Nicaragua by Joel Kovel...
...David Stoll's "Evangelicals, Guerrillas and the Army" is especially instructive on the confluence of domestic and international sources of violence...
...The national radio network, the only media permitted to function during the offensive, repeatedly broadcast virulent threats against Ellacurfa, as well as well-known figures identified with the Left...
...by Robert M. Carmack, University of Oklahoma Press, 1988, 288 pp., $21.95 (cloth...
...Unless steps are taken to bring a negotiated end to this war, to punish those responsible for past human rights violations and weed them out of the armed forces, these kinds of horrors will recur...
...Robert Ames...
...The writer is a North American residing in San Salvador who wishes to remain anonymous...
...Few think that Army Col...
...The Grupo Gay da Bahia is still doing AIDS education work and is going strong...
...No progress has been made in the investigation of the October 31 noontime bombing of the FENASTRAS labor federation office in downtown San Salvador, in which ten unionists died and dozens were injured...
...To date no Salvadoran military officer has been tried and convicted for the political killing of civilians...
...Unfortunately, your author makes the peculiar statement, "but only one gay organization, located in the poor northwest suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, is openly attempting to address AIDS from a gay perspective...
...Language and Politics by Noam Chomsky, ed...
...Nor is there any investigation of the hundreds of other cases of civilians killed, many in cold blood, during the offensive-not to mention the tens of thousands killed in the last ten years...
...More than a dozen North and Latin American anthropologists document the consequences of the Guatemalan military's genocidal policies on everyday life in several indigenous communities...
...All independent media coverage has been suppressed under the state of siege...
...It has moved from the rural to the urban areas and is recruiting among students and labor as well as campesinos...
...policy...
...In fact, the Grupo Gay da Bahia, in the lower northeast part of Brazil, has been doing a lot of AIDS work since at least 1985...
...Freedom of expression was and remains suspended...
...Has NACLA become one of imperialism's running dogs...
...All this seems so obvious that it hardly bears saying...
...Its ranks are not thinning but getting stronger over time...
...CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 CONTINUED Read Our Lips A while ago a popular left publication advertised that one should subscribe because if not "you might miss the revolution...
...In the issues on drugs and the homeless, Sendero Luminoso is either given short shrift or written off completely...
...Several people have told me they spoke to the Jesuits between the Monday evening search of their residence and their assassination Wednesday night, and urged them to stay elsewhere...
...Guillermo Alfredo Benavides, currently charged with ordering the killings, would have taken such a decision on his own...
...aid to El Salvador) was seen as a positive step, but it hardly resolves the case...
...Free Association Books, 1988, 183 pp., $35 (cloth...
...Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis ed...
...For those who know him only as media analyst and critic of foreign policy, this wide-ranging book offers glimpses of his studies on language, anarchist theory and critiques of radical politics as practiced since the 1960s...
...Yet nothing could be further from the truth...
...The officers clearly felt that they could, as in the past, act with impunity...
...Perhaps the author depended on misinformed sources from the large southern cities...
...Ironically, the Jesuits may have been killed precisely because they did not think they were the most likely targets...
...Mauricio Staben, long linked to death squads...
...Looking out my window, knowing but not accepting that I will no longer see those familiar Jesuit faces, I can only hope that their deaths will become a turning point in U.S...
...But if the United States is again satisfied with cosmetic changes, with an "acceptable" level of human rights violations, El Salvador will continue to bleed...
...The Jesuits insisted nothing would happen to them...
Vol. 23 • April 1990 • No. 6
