were salvadorans also be held to account? a push to overturn amnesty law is underway fueled by new evidence of government complicity and murders and disappearances. los santos, a human rights activist, is searching out people in the yellow book. the book is a compilation of so-called dplin delinquent terrorists. >> how was it discovered? >> the yellow book was discovered three years ago. since then researchers have been carefully checking its authenticity so it is just now coming to life. marked confidential. fought together as the national liberation front or fmln . santos says some of the people were falsely accused of belonging to guerilla groups. others disappeared with death squads. the picture in the yellow book shows a young woman a swollen face named carmella castro. then a group of men dressed in civilian clothes took her to her house to search it. >> laura her sister was at home when the death squad arrived. carmenda had worked with a group in honduras but returned home with a small baby to live with her family. >>

salvadoran not spicy. >> that's true. they don't do it that spicy. >> wow. chicharon.d with peppers, onion and tomato. simple. >> take the liberty of ordering op detroit beverages we've egregiously overlooked so far. burners. >> a cross between ginger beer and ginger ale. not as spicy as ginger beer and not as sweet as ginger ale in middle. it's my favorite. >> i need this to enhance my street cred in detroit so i will be welcomed back. >> then pollo asado. butter, garlic, simple, delicious. >> it's the low fat butter. >> that's good. >> it's like a big hug. >> how did you find your way here? >> honestly it's only word of mouth. >> you have annoying foodie web sites, right? >> true. but they're not coming here. >> they're not coming here. >> oh, no. they walk in the door, oh. >> there are thousands of foodies with ironic sunglasses and fedoras just waiting to go get in here. >> we don't want this place to come to the food -- i get mad at him when he brings people. >> you don't want people outside with a two-hour wait. >> who doesn't want money? >> with her it's not abo

this one's serving home-cooked salvadoran meals. once a living room, now the main dining area.but she's been here for ten years serving a mostly salvadoran clientele looking for a taste of home. >> toe maul lease. >> first up a staple done a little differently than the norm, tamales wrapped in banana leaf and steamed. mm, that's delicious. >> next the dish of the house. papusas. tortillas stuffed with ground pork or chicharon. >> you can get papusas in nicarag nicaragua, guatemala. for some reason salvadorian p u papusas get the most respect. consensus seems to be they're the best. >> i'd agree. >> he's been coming here with his friend joe for years. >> this is what makes it right here, boom. is this. cortido. pickled slaw. salsa. and i do this. but i don't know if you're up for this one. >> what are you saying? >> i don't know if you can hang, man. >> is it a manly thing? >> it's turning into it, seems like. >> mexican spicy. salvadorian, not spicy. >> that's true. they don't like it that spicy. >> chicharon? porky goodness in there. >> fried pork and ground with pepper, onion

the woman running it, we can't show her face, but she's been here for ten years serving a mostly salvadoranome. first up a staple done a little differently than the norm. tamales wrapped in banana leafs and steamed. delicious. next the dish of the house, tortillas stuffed with ground pork. you have pupusas in nicaragua, in guatemala. but for some reason, salvadorian pupusas get the most respect. general consensus seems to be they're the best. how come? >> i would agree. >> george azar is our detroit fixer. he's been coming here with his friend joe for years. >> this is what makes it right here, this. cortido. >> it's pickled. >> i don't know if you can hang, man. >> it's turning into it. >> mexican spice. salvadorian, not spicy. >> they don't do it that spicy. >> this is porky goodness, that's for sure. >> it's fried pork, ground with pepper and tomato. simple. >> taking the liberty of ordering some detroit beverages that we've overlooked so far. >> it's like a cross between ginger beer and ginger ale. it's in the middle. it's my favorite beverage in the city. >> i needed this to enhance my

the history of the civil war and in guatemala, that was the scene of the worst massacre by the salvadoran army -- b by the guatemalan army, i'm sorry, during the civil war. so those people lift guatemala, they migrated through mexico into the united states, and the number was so large that they have the community that they've named after their hometown. today the remittances that people are sending home is the largest source of national income in el salvador. in mexico, where is that? every year, i think in 2008 it got to be $30 billion and then it went down a little bit because there was a recession, and now it's going up again. so it's an enormous amount of money. people are coming today from the most remote parts of hex coe where people -- mexico where people are still speaking languages that were old when kilometer bus got here. [speaking spanish] so what has produced this migration? thinking about oaxaca, for instance. it's the same thing -- the same thing that produced the migration, the same thing that created a situation in whether there is virtually no community in mexico that ha

salvadoran women who endured a protected civil war describes the experience of -- which is often described of a feeling of intense heat to the body and people from afghanistan would describe nervous anger after a germanic event and intense pressure in their body. so it is possible with some hard work to go into another culture and to learn the language of suffering to understand how they combined with local modes of healing. this is exactly what a researcher did in sri lanka. she was a trauma researcher. she was there the day the tsunami happened already doing research on, in a culture and to understand the local meaning of distress what she did was she gathered together people who had all witnessed the tsunami and a set of quizzing them with the ptsd checked list she had them tell her open its stories about who were doing well and people were doing badly and she began to categorize reactions and did a larger scale survey to confirm the results. what she ended up with was what she called the sri lankan index of psychosocial suffering a measure of the local indicators of distress. so how do