They found Salomon Vides recently, clad in rags and gaunt and pallid after hiding out for 32 years in a Guatemalan jungle. He was a migrant worker in Honduras in 1969 when El Salvador, his native country, invaded. Fearing he would be killed by revenge-minded Hondurans, Vides fled to Guatemala and, after escaping arrest, disappeared into the jungle. About 100 hours into the conflict, the Organization of American States intervened to stop the fighting and peace was restored. Someone just forgot to tell Vides, that's all.
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