Mark Weisbrot: El Salvador Votes Away Its Bad Past
“Those of us who can remember the 1980s can see President Ronald Reagan on television warning that ‘El Salvador is nearer to Texas than Texas is to Massachusetts’ as he sent guns and money to the Salvadoran military and its affiliated death squads. Their tens of thousands of targets – for torture, terror and murder – were overwhelmingly civilians, including Catholic priests, nuns and the heroic archbishop Oscar Romero. It seems ridiculous now that Reagan could have convinced the US Congress that the people who won Sunday’s election were not only a threat to our national security, but one that justified horrific atrocities. But he did” – Weisbrot in The Guardian/UK ..
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