Enemy Colleagues: A Reading of the Salvadoran Tragedy

We print this remarkable article—perhaps the most comprehensive portrait yet drawn of the inner workings of Salvadoran politics—as part of a group commissioned by the Mexican monthly Vuelta, edited by Octavio Paz, and the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas, the publisher of Dissent. The articles are scheduled to appear as a booklet in the near future.

Gabriel Zaid is a distinguished Mexican writer and social critic. His article was written severa...