Fault Lines

VICTOR CASTELL agrees to spend the summer with his mother in her native El Salvador. He has just graduated from college in the United States. It is 1989. El Salvador is convulsing in a brutal civil war that has waged for years between the right-wing military backed government funded by U.S. aid, and a populist insurgency. With influential family on both extremes of this political divide, Castell is drawn into the sphere of his left-leaning university professor uncle, an outspoken critic of ...