I VISITED El Salvador in 1989, in the month before the infamous tipping-point killings by government forces of six Jesuit professors, their housekeeper, and her daughter. The war was in its ninth year, and the purpose of our delegation was to meet with representatives from both sides. I don't speak Spanish, but I heard the discrepancy between the language of those in power - the president and an Army colonel downgrading the "guerra civil" to "el conflicto" - and the savage stories told by everyone else.
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