The Simon Wiesenthal Center asked the mayor of San Salvador to remove a monument honoring Yasser Arafat. Shimon Samuels, the center’s international relations director, and the group’s Latin American representative, Sergio Widder, wrote to Mayor Carlos Rivas Zamora that “from a humanist perspective it is intolerable that such a tribute is being paid to someone who actively boycotted the road
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