El Salvador

[Commie Girl]

Can anyone help me find the FACTS on what happened in El Salvador during the 80's? I have friends who were refugees from there and they told me that the U$ is responsible for the death of their brother, Mario Lopez. They also indicated that they knew Che and Fidel at one point and that Mr. Lopez was the head of a group of rebels that was enticed back to El Salvador to take part in elections, where his name would stand on the ballot.

Sadly, he was tricked and executed. His 15 year old son was also murdered by, as they put it, "having his skin removed".

[Leninist thug]

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-2-02.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episo...views/martinez/ (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/interviews/martinez/)

http://www3.uakron.edu/worldciv/pascher/salvador.html

[Sabocat]

1980 – Present
American Terrorism of the El Salvadoran People

Estimated civilian deaths: over 75,000 people

From Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See
by Dave McGowan:

Massive amounts of arms, training and funding were poured into El Salvador to prop up the puppet government against a popular uprising. Featured the covert use of U.S. air power and ground forces, as well as the training, at the “School of the Americas” [in Ft. Benning, Georgia], of the leaders of the right-wing death squads which executed thousands of Salvadorans.

Some of the highlights of the death squad activities included the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the execution of six Jesuit priests along with their housekeeper and her daughter, the rape and execution of four American church women, and the mass execution of some 800 civilians at the village of El Mozote.


From Killing Hope
by William Blum:

El Salvador’s dissidents tried to work within the system. But with U.S. support, the government made that impossible, using repeated electoral fraud and murdering hundreds of protesters and strikers. In 1980, the dissidents took to the gun, and civil war.

Officially, the U.S. military presence in El Salvador was limited to an advisory capacity. In actuality, military and CIA personnel played a more active role on a continuous basis. About 20 Americans were killed or wounded in helicopter and plane crashes while flying reconnaissance or other missions over combat areas, and considerable evidence surfaced of a U.S. role in the ground fighting as well. The war came to an official end in 1992; 75,000 civilian deaths and the U.S. Treasury depleted by six billion dollars.

Meaningful social change has been largely thwarted. A handful of the wealthy still own the country, the poor remain as ever, and dissidents still have to fear right-wing death squads.

Link (http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html)

[Guerrilla22]

See Reagan foregn policy*