Volume 29, Number 7 · April 29, 1982
A Guide to El Salvador
By Murray Kempton
Enemy Colleagues: A Reading of the Salvadoran Tragedy
by Gabriel Zaid
Dissent Magazine, (521 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10017), $3.00
The public enlightenment about El Salvador would be signally served by the current issue of Dissent if the enlightenment afforded by an organ with a circulation of less than 6,500 could realistically be called public. Dissent commissioned Gabriel Zaid, a Mexican social critic, to provide a roster of the teams and players in this dreadful game. He has responded with one of those dense and intimate studies of confusion whose blending of the cynical with the morally concerned guides us as close as we can come to an understanding of affairs like this, which is that they cannot be understood by persons who look for a right side and a wrong one.
Review, 746 words
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