17 July 2017

Right and wrong are not always in separate spaces

War in El Salvador strikes Apalachicola  THE ISSUE: An El Salvadorian man who lived as a legal resident of Apalachicola for more than 20 years, raising a family, working as a grocer, was deported last week on the grounds he committed human rights violations during a civil war there 30 years ago. THE IMPACT: A community tries to make sense of how and why an upstanding citizen who sought a clean break from his past is answering for it now.  The blood of a brutal civil war in Latin America more than three decades ago spilled into the heart of Apalachicola last week, with the deportation of a well-respected local grocer on the grounds he committed war crimes while a young soldier in his native El Salvador.  Apalachicola and Caribelle Times

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