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5 picks · 1989–1993

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THE TRUTH OF EL MOZOTE
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about the massacre of the inhabitants of El Mozote, El Salvador, by Salvadoran Army troops of the Atlacatl companies, trained in the …

Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Commodity
comment ·

With the publication of the Colonel’s memoirs and his nineteen-city tour to promote it, the Iran-Contra affair began its inevitable transformation from tragedy into farce into “product,” Mark Danner wrote, in 1991.

BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS-III
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier. By the end of his 15-year rule, Jean-Claude and his wife had become the ultimate …

II-BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Haiti and Papa Doc Duvalier. Tells about the history of Haiti from the time it was settled through to the ascension of …

I-BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Presidential elections in Haiti which ended in bloodshed & led to the rise of the Army-backed Leslie F. Manigat. The …