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Our Actions Have Significant Force in Shaping Our Future
In 1980 the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, pleads with president Carter "Christian to Christian" to stop aiding the military government slaughtering his people. Carter refuses. Shortly afterwards, right-wing leader Roberto D'Aubuisson has Romero shot through the heart while saying mass. The country soon dissolves into civil war, with the peasants in the hills fighting against the military government. The CIA and U.S. Armed Forces supply the government with overwhelming military and intelligence superiority. CIA-trained death squads roam the countryside, committing atrocities like that of El Mazote in 1982, where they massacre between 700 and 1000 men, women and children. By 1992, some 63,000 Salvadorans will be killed.
Source: http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/ Accessed 4/13/09
Note: During 1980 some 12,000 Salvadorans were killed. Many estimates put the total number of Salvadorans killed during the massacre years from 1980 to 1992 at 75,000, with thousands of others disappeared or abducted.
About Me
- Carlitos Buenischke
- from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- I'm on the road to EMMAUS: Engaging in Ministry and Missionary Activity United in the Spirit....Tearing down WALLS, laying them on their sides, and converting them into bridges of UNITY.