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Zapata
Joaquim Alfredo Zapata Romero, Foreign Service National, died on April 16, 1984, in San Salvador, El Salvador. The Regional Security Office investigator was shot by five armed men. Back to DSS Memorial

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future