I met Leigh Binford in Dec 1994 during the burial of the 143 children and 2 adults that were sent back for the formal burial at El Mozote. Binfords analysis is more in depth than Danners dramatic book as far as cultural background and historical development of El Mozote and the state of Morazan in general. I currently am living in San salvador and right now they (Medicina Legal Forensics) are currently exhuming massacre remains near San Vicente.

Too bad the whole worlds attention is so Pavlov to the Medias bidding to current events while the past -and current- U.S. Involvement in El Salvador is swept under the rug and hid behind low intensity conflict style blaming. "Oh its their fault" Yeah, we trained them, and knew it was going on all the time. Right NOW we are VERY involved in COLOMBIA, and everybody is just sitting and browsing the net with starbucks coffee., Lets get off our duffs and find out what's going on. "Oh, but wait.. I have to see if My plastic Horses have sold on Ebay." Good work LEIGH!

I would recommend this book to anyone who is moved by high quality documentary black and white photogaphy. Or anyone who is interested in the culture of El Salvador. As a photography student, I know how many thousands of exposures it takes to get one image that has a truly unique perspective and contains real power. This book has many images that would be the "photo of a lifetime" for most people I know.

It was very moving. Larry Towell does real honor to the word "photojournalist" with this collection of work. I would love to own a print from one of his negatives someday.

I found this book to be truly well organized, as I was able to find anything I needed about the country. It was very interesting to read and the descriptions of the different parts of El Salvador were very well written.

I strongly recommend this book for people that want to travel to El Salvador or who have children that need to write a report.

This book contains excellent descriptions of the usual way the U.S. trains it's comprador states to "handle" political dissent and detailed eyewitness accounts of the systematic way that peasants who sympathize or are suspected of sympathizing with guerrillas are burned out of their homes, massacred and hunted down. It describes refugee camps full of hungry civilians with children who are usually sick and malnourished from weeks of fleeing in the hills. There are some interesting revelations about the use of U.S.-made chemical weapons against civilians, including black & white photos of white phosphorous burns. This is a book I am sure the U.S. government does not appreciate. This is an excellent book to keep for reference not just for yourself but for future generations. This is knowledge that cannot be lost.

This work, by late-professor Baloyra, is one of the most complete and well written accounts of the military-political struggles in El Salvador during the so-called Central American Crisis of the 1980s. Its combination of history and politics is essential reading for any student of the area and/or time period.

This is an amazingly stirring book for meditation or prayer, or simply to understand the reality of the 1980s in El Salvador. It captures the struggles of the Salvadoran people through the period of their civil war through their own stories.

Vivid illustrations, more up-to-date than other children's books on El Salvador because it was written after the war. Fun to read, especially the chapter on folktales. Not too shocking for children. Recommended!!:)

El instituto FERRER I GUARDIA está realizando una labor fundamental en estos dias. Están recaudando dinero para los paises de centro América, y ponen, tanto profesores como alumnos, cuerpo y alma para ayudarles. Esto merece un buen reconocimiento, aunque ahora muchas personas se vuelcan para ayudarles.

This is a fascinating critique of how North American scholars have interpreted revolutionary movements in El Salvador and, by implication, neighboring Central American countries. The "dominant paradigm" is the idea that injustice + reactionary governments = revolution. Why have Latin America scholars lagged behind others in studying revolution in terms of culture, ideology and agency? Grenier's focus on the role of the Salvadoran universities and political-military organizations suggests an answer. The dominant paradigm removes the revolutionary vanguard from scrutiny. Not being a specialist on El Salvador, I hope to see Grenier's approach taken seriously and debated by other Central America scholars.

This book is an inspired, readable, and labor of love account of the growth of popular education in El Salvador. The writer shares the continuing challenges faced and rewards shared by students, teachers, and those who teach the teachers.

As in El Salvador, the US, especially Texas, California, Florida, New Mexico, Arizona will increasingly face similar challenges. With the growth of the Spanish speaking populations in the U.S. over the next twenty years, educators and health care professionals will be challenged to adapt and at times abandon certain professional roles and attitudes, in favor of more indigenous methods and messengers for advancing literacy and promoting life enhancing health practices and interventions. Public policy in Texas is already shifting toward the use of community based practitioners in healthcare with a view toward building social capital in Hispanic cultures that can become self-sustaining. Professional treatment and education models are not abandoned, but new program growth may be toward the use of professionals to teach the teachers, health educators, and care givers to care for their own communities, and build community based, rather than, state driven programs.

Social service professionals in the U.S. may see their future in this book.