Volume 36, Number 8 · May 18, 1989
Sad New El Salvador
By Michael Massing
The election-night scene at San Salvador's Presidente Hotel in March had all the trappings of an American campaign. The lobby was filled with party workers, election officials, international observers, camera crews, and security men. For the almost eight hundred foreign journalists in town, a high-tech press room had been set up, with computers, FAX machines, and telephone operators ready to place calls around the world. On television, political commentators using the latest in computerized graphics analyzed the meaning of the day's exit polls for a country in which three out of every five families don't have enough to eat.
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