Children of Cain

An honest judge in Medellin a Maoist guerilla of Peru's Shining Path the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina's Dirty War the pool-party rich of El Salvador the disabused revolutionaries of Nicaragua and the ordinary Chileans who became silent partners in Pinochet's dictatorship--these people live in Latin America but their stories illuminate the human face of violence all over the world.<p>Tina Rosenberg spent five years trying to understand their world and learning to live with these children of Cain. Their stories are disturbing precisely because these people are not monsters; the faces in <b>Children of Cain</b> are not those of strangers.</p>