April 2010 Immigration's Frankenstein February 2010 Three Films About El Salvador: Then & Now Recent News from El Salvador: Water and Power November 2009 Teamster Official Gives Copy of Blood of Paradise to El Salvador's President On Eve of 20th Anniversary of the Murder of Six Jesuits October 2009 The War of the Adverb is On (Second Front) June 2009 The Myth of the Messianic Military: The Coup in Honduras "Things Are Worse Now Than During the Civil War" May 2009 The El Salvador Mauricio Funes Inherits: The Economy The El Salvador Mauricio Funes Inherits: Crime Funes the Moderate? March 2009 El Salvador Turns a Page in the History Books February 2009 Valentine's Day 2009 January 2009 21A Promise for Change—in El Salvador December 2008 Will the Obama Administration Close Down WHINSEC (formerly the School of the Americas)? November 2008 What Will the Obama Doctrine be in Latin America? 2008 Election Day, 2008 August 2008 Eddie Muller: Grand Inquisitor July 2008 Writing Is Very Much a Solitary Endeavor June 2008 Another Book Passage Mystery Conference Come and Gone June 22nd: A Birthday Note Misery Loves Company An Audie Win and an Anthony Nod May 2008 Lip Service Oakley Hall San Francisco as Literary Crime Central 2008 Edgar Allen Poe Award Winners April 2008 Noir, Tragedy And Other Dreary Bummers How I Write (Or: What the Hell am I Thinking?) March 2008 A Lovely Place, A Big-Hearted Lady and Little Girl in Need anotherwhere: A New Musical Left Coast Crime: Sex, Violence and a Brief Word About Marriage 2008 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference February 2008 News From Central America—Justice Salvadorian Style Guatemala Seeks Politician's Arrest January 2008 Guatemala Police Arrest Alleged Murder Mastermind Lovers of the Arctic Circle I Will Go to See the Banana Man, the Joy of My Youth The War on Terror in El Salvador December 2007 The Meaning of Hope A Poet Turns Her Eye to El Salvador Honoring International Human Rights Day The Moral Hazard Myth November 2007 A Tale of an Evolving Brazilian Leftist No Safe Haven in U.S. For Torturers (Finally?) Crime: A Catalyst for Change in Latin America? All Elections are Local, Part 2 October 2007 Are the Neoconservatives America's Jacobins? Profiles in Courage: Guatemala's Untouchables (Los Intocables) An Excerpt from a Novel in Progress All Politics is Local: A Letter to the Editor 3:10 to Baghdad September 2007 A Letter to the U.S. Embassy: A Visa Denial Bodes Poorly for American Interests in Latin America The Killer as Candidate: Guatemala's Upcoming Presidential Run-off Storm Clouds Over Latin America—and a videotape from bin Laden Three American Servicemen Held Hostage in Colombia August 2007 Vietnam as Analogy (for El Salvador 1981 and Iraq 2007) The Reagan Regime, Part 2: Response from Congress and America's Allies ("I wish to God presidents would read a few books.") The Reagan Regime, Part 1: The Turn Toward Ideology (Then and Now) Central America Today: Violence and Inequality (Surprise) July 2007 Protestors of Water Privatization Arrested and Charged as Terrorists: "Soon there will be nothing left to rape" The Guerillas' "Final" Offensive, January 1981 The Crucial Year, Bloody 1980: "They'll Kill Anybody" The Reagan Doctrine, Part 2: Jeanne Kirkpatrick The Reagan Doctrine: A Hard Right Turn June 2007 The Salvador Option (Part 4: El Salvador Today) The Salvador Option (Part 3: Lending Money to a Gambler) The Salvador Option (Part 2: A U.S. Advisor Speaks Up) The Salvador Option in Iraq May 2007 The Carter Doctrine, Part IV: Conclusions The Carter Doctrine, Part III: Searching for the Center in El Salvador The Carter Doctrine, Part II: Nicaragua Revisited The Carter Doctrine, Part I: Human Rights, and the Legacy of Nicaragua April 2007 Two (Salvadoran) Women Amnesty vs. Accountability: How the Past Poisons the Present A Mother and Child Reunion The Murder of Jose Gilberto Soto March 2007 A Brief Word (Again) About a Slain Hero (and a few miscellany) A Telling Silence Archbishop Oscar Romero—A Voice for the Voiceless A Barren Hope: The Reformist Coup of October 1979 February 2007 The 1970s in El Salvador: Repression and Revolt El Salvador—Where and What, and the beginnings of Why Martha Gelhorn—Every Squeak Counts (or A Note on the Unexpected Pleasures of Research) January 2007 In Memory: Barbara Seranella