Time magazine reporter David DeVoss, center, interviews a Salvadoran army soldier about the recent elections and nearby guerrilla insurgency in San Vicente department, El Salvador, May 15, 1984. 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. Time magazine covered the region from its office in Mexico City and had a reporter and photographer stationed in San Salvador throughout the 1980s.
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, center, interviews President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja, right, at the Presidential Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 10, 1984. Vargas Llosa was reporting on the 1984 Salvadoran presidential elections for Time magazine. Time magazine correspondent David DeVoss, left, listens during the interview.