El Salvador: Email Hoaxes Raise Dark Memories of Civil War

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | October 29th, 2009 | Trackback

The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador reported that an email hoax that threatened increased gang activity circulated around the country and “caused a significant disruption of normal activities.” A follow-up email hoax also circulated with a message supposedly from a death squad from the civil war years (1980-92) saying it was reforming to exterminate the gangs. Both messages, and the public’s reaction to them, suggest that despite how far the country has traveled from that tumultuous time, tensions remain beneath the surface, and true peace is still elusive.

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