Requiem for a nomad

Abstract

When Gabriela Mistral learned about the suicide of her friend, the Viennese novelist Stefan Zweig, in Petropolis, Brazil, convinced of the victory of Nazi Germany, she said that he had “died because of War”. Guadi Calvo, an Argentinean writer, proposes in this article that the same could be said about the Franco-Spanish photographer Christian Poveda, who, with a history of more than thirty years as a war correspondent, was murdered in El Salvador in September 2009 when he was covering the social war, the poor against the poor, in which are involved particularly the Mara 18 and their arch-rival the Mara Salvatrucha.