El <strong>Salvador</strong> 1982 is the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travelsfrom battlefields to body dumps interviews a puppet president conside... » 

El Salvador 1982 is the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travelsfrom battlefields to body dumps interviews a puppet president considers thedistinctly Salvadoran meaning of the verb to disappear and trains a mercilesseye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions ofUS foreign policy. «