El Salvador: reminders of war.

From: Monthly Review | Date: October 1, 1986| Author: Arnesen, Eric | Copyright information

EL SALVADOR: REMINDERS OF WAR

Only a few years ago the crisis in Central America--from the perspective of the Reagan administration--centered on El Salvador, which similarly occupied the attention of liberals and the left. The undisguisable brutality and the sheer level of horror perpetrated by the U.S.-backed government was a regular object of criticism and protest. Congress pressed for "certification" of human rights abuses and in 1981 over 100,000 people marched in Was...

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