Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
9 It was an extremely difficult place to find out
10 information for anyone. From Bob -- Ambassador White. Every
11 single ambassador, every single researcher.
12 It is the country, in the years that we are looking
13 at, where more journalists died than in the entire war in Viet
14 Nam. More foreign journalists died in El Salvador in the '80
15 to '83 period, than journalists who died in the entire war in
16 Viet Nam.
17 It is a place where information is extremely
18 difficult to gather and, therefore, there is a very high
19 premium on that information.
20 Q. If I could draw your attention to page 16 of your CV,
21 there are listed there some positions. Let me start with one
22 near the bottom. The Latin American Policy Group for U.S.
23 Representative Michael Barnes, Chairman of the House Committee
24 on Inter-American Affairs, 1983 to 1985.
25 Could you please tell us about that.
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1 A. Excuse me, could I add one thing to my last answer?
2 Q. Sure.
3 A. When things are dangerous in El Salvador, you almost
4 always get a warning of some sort. And there are gaps in my
5 travels to El Salvador, and that is because it was my personal
6 judgment, based on my room being searched or being followed,
7 or something that made me think it was too dangerous, to leave
8 the country and get out.
9 And so as a foreigner, you have a great deal more
10 protection in that country than a Salvadoran would. But it is
11 extremely dangerous. And I think that all of us, the very few
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