Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
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1 sometimes I would go to Guatemala or Costa Rica or somewhere
2 else, but every one of those trips was a research trip in El
3 Salvador, which was my country of interest in Central America.
4 It's always been my primary country and interest. It's the
5 country I have written on the most, and those are my research
6 trips.
7 I have other trips to Central America -- excuse me,
8 to El Salvador that are not listed on this vita, because they
9 were not necessarily in my capacity as an academic, but as a
10 pro bono human rights investigator or something like that.
11 Q. Well, let's leave out those for the moment.
12 Could you please summarize the kinds of research that
13 you conducted during these research trips in El Salvador,
14 beginning in 1981, and just summarize. There is quite a few,
15 obviously.
16 A. All of these trips are -- include research that I do for
17 material that I write. So all of this includes field
18 research, looking for documentation, lots and lots of
19 interviewing. Gathering materials, reading through archives,
20 gathering -- I may be the only person who has ever read the
21 archives of some of the Salvadoran newspapers, for example.
22 The -- so all of those are things that I do for my
23 own research.
24 In addition, I have worked for a number of -- for the
25 U.S. government and for a number -- and for the United
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