Bravest Person I Ever Met
Maria Julia Hernandez, R.I.P., is the bravest person I ever met.
I met her in 1982 in El Salvador at the funeral of a human rights worker who had just been gunned down. For the next decade, she was always the first and last person I’d see in El Salvador.
After the murder of Archbishop Romero, it seemed at times that Maria’s was the lone voice of outrage that lifted itself to heaven.
I last saw her in San Salvador in 2001. She was still struggling for justice for the same victims of 20 years earlier.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Maria Julia Hernandez, presente!
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:42 am
The Department of Defense has identified 3,239 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:
ARNETTE, Jason R., 24, Staff Sgt., Army; Amelia, Va.; 10th Mountain Division.
FLORES, Wilfred Jr., 20, Specialist, Army; Lawton, Okla.; 10th Mountain Division.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I hope you don’t mind an off-topic comment, but this is important: There is a great post on The Carpetbagger Report from a few days ago about the mainstream media’s (specifically Time magazine’s) ignoring the prosecutor purge scandal.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10367.html
What explains the failure of the mainstream media to cover the purge scandal for so long, and so many other scandals? Do you think somebody just set up newspaper editors to cheat on their wives, and threatened to tell if the editors wouldn’t play ball when they come back some day and ask for something?
It wouldn’t be that hard to do, when you think about it. People wouldn’t talk about it.
April 4th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Gee Marc that is SO 1980′s! Besides Eliot Abrams and John Negroponte have more important things to do now bringing Democracy to Iraq!
January 21st, 2011 at 8:20 am
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