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The road to Santa Ana is closed.

I understand, but Colonel Figueroa told me to give a present to you boys.

They're journalists.

I'm a friend of Colonel Figueroa...

We've stopped a truckload of suspicious campesinos.

Why did you leave your papers at home?

I always leave them there. Please, sir.

Look, I'm a friend of Colonel Figueroa's.

-Who are your friends? -Communists.

Take off your glasses.

COLONEL JULIO FIGUEROA Commander 3rd Brigade Infantry

What a pretty girl.

They said you were dead.

Where's her father?

Disappeared.

Let's go to the house.

No, for you I stopped. No more alcohol.

I know you have another woman in the north.

EL PLAYON Dump site for death squad victims

RAMON ALVAREZ, Director of Human Rights Office and spokesman

for the Revolutionary Democratic Front

MAIN CATHEDRAL San Salvador

To the mountains?

COLONEL BENTLEY HYDE Senior Officer MILGROUP

JACK MORGAN U.S. State Department Analyst

THOMAS KELLY U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador

Attention, residents of Escalon.

Ronald Reagan has been elected President.

MAJOR MAXIMILIANO CASANOVA (aka Major Max)

Presidential Candidate and Former Director of Salvadoran Intelligence.

It's getting dangerous here.

Yes, we're living in a bad time.

Like 1932 again, I detect a bad feeling in the air.

You and your friends are really funny.

Yes, but you'd look better without your balls.

How 'bout I cut yours off!

How about some beers for everybody?

Let's go to the beach. I've got my pickup truck.

Me with you? Not even to church. Why don't you ask your mother?

I'm going up with the guerrillas in the mountains.

They took Carlos and Dr. Rock! They saw the marijuana!

They're marihuanos. Subversives.

No, he's a bad kid. No respect.

He stays here. Or you stay as well.

Calm down, take it easy...

Stop! Stop, please!

I have orders to evacuate the plaza. In five minutes. Do you understand me?

I have superior orders signed.

Why don't you stop the repression?

No matter - five minutes or violence.

Why don't you do something about the Disappeared?

Violence! You understand me?

Stop the repression!

The governing junta has good intentions with their promises of land reform...

and their desire to control...

the so-called paramilitary forces in the army.

But, sadly, it is a failure...

because the power within the junta is the Army...

and the Army itself is an obstacle to the reign of God.

They know only how to repress the people...

and defend the interests of the rich oligarchy.

I have called upon the United States repeatedly...

to stop all military aid to this Army...

until it satisfactorily resolves the problems of the Disappeared...

and submits itself to civilian control.

When a dictatorship seriously violates human rights...

and attacks the common good of the nation...

When it becomes unbearable and closes all channels of dialogue...

When this happens, the Church speaks...

of the legitimate right of insurrectional violence!

We are poor. You in Washington are so rich.

Why are you so blind?

My children...

you must look to yourselves...

in this sad time for El Salvador.

I wish to close with an appeal to the men of the Army...

and in particular, the National Guard.

Brothers, you are part of our people.

Yet you kill your own peasant brothers and sisters.

But before a man may kill, the law of God must prevail.

And that law says, "Thou shall not kill."

No soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God.

Violence on all sides is wrong.

Violence is wrong.

In the name of God, and in the name of these suffering people...

whose laments rise to Heaven each day more tumultuous...

I beg you...

I ask you...

I order you in the name of God...

stop the repression!

Arrest him for the murder of the Archbishop Romero.

No interview with this piece of shit.

Ever since you've gotten here, there's been nothing but problems.

You are an important man, Jefe.

A photograph for me?

Enough!

We want to do a real in-depth and sympathetic portrait.

COMANDANTE MARTí Nom de Guerre

What does it say?

"Leticia cleans her gun."

Figueroa's broken through.

They're coming! Tanks!

Don't let Figueroa pass! I'll hold the front!

-What about the prisoners? -I'll take care of them.

No pictures!

It's necessary. Get them out of here.

I like the White Hand a lot.

Tremble, tremble, Communists, with the instincts of animals...

Don't castrate him in here. You'll make a mess. Shoot him.