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Article: El Salvador worker is target of violence. (shooting of Alejandro Hernandez)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 8, 1996
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Though details of the case are murky, the February 2 shooting of a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission worker in El Salvador seems to have been more calculated than random. Alejandro Hernandez--who works in a Lutheran community ministry that reaches about 700 families in the Chalatenango region in central El Salvador--was shot twice in the face while sitting in the driver's seat of a car full of teenagers.
Deaf in one ear as a result of the assault, Hernandez is recuperating from reconstructive surgery on his jaw. He remembers only that he was approached by two men who asked if he was the Reverend Alejandro Hernandez--and then one of them opened fire. "My case," ...