Journalists Ivan Montesinos (UPI), left, Victor Tobar (Visnews), center left standing, Erico Zas Cano (Visnews), center, and Luis Alberto Romero (AP), right, are pictured before the arrival of a military convoy in the department of San Vicente, El Salvador, May 1, 1982. Every major paper and wire service had a bureau in El Salvador while international concern maintained the Central American conflicts as hemispheric battles over communist expansion.