A Crackdown in El Salvador, and Fears of Arbitrary Arrests
LA LIMONERA, El Salvador - Esmeralda Dominguez was about 100 yards from home when soldiers and police blocked her on a small bridge. The authorities had waited there for hours. Dominguez, neighbors said, was the only person they stopped.
Her aunt, who lived nearby, protested. Dominguez was no criminal, she insisted, rattling off the community organizations her niece led or was involved in. It didn't matter.