El Mozote – Rol de los Estados Unidos / The role of the United States

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DEMOCRACY NOW reports:

In El Salvador, pretrial hearings on the 1981 El Mozote massacre are being held this week. Nearly 1,000 civilians from across seven villages were killed in the massacre carried out by U.S.-trained Salvadoran military officers. One of the expert witnesses, Stanford University political scientist Terry Karl, detailed the on-site presence of U.S. military adviser Allen Bruce Hazelwood with the Salvadoran Army at the time of the massacre, providing new insight into what Karl referred to as a “sophisticated cover-up” of the events on behalf of the Reagan administration and the Salvadoran military junta.

Terry Karl: “The presence of an American adviser with Salvadoran General Monterrosa, whose name is Allen Bruce Hazelwood, if this had been made public at the time, in my opinion and the opinion of Thomas Enders and other secretaries of state, this would have cut U.S. aid, because this is illegal.”

 

Karl also expressed that, when acting as a witness during Alvaro Saravia’s trial in Fresno, she said she could see a fundamental relationship between the killing of Monsignor Romero and the massacre in El Mozote “because if you can kill an archbishop, you can kill everyone, because that created the feeling of incredible impunity (…) and I said that in that moment for me, El Salvador entered a civil war.”

 

Read more about it in this article published by EL FARO.

 

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DEMOCRACY NOW reporta:

En El Salvador, esta semana se están llevando a cabo audiencias previas al juicio sobre la masacre de El Mozote en 1981.Casi 1.000 civiles de siete pueblos murieron en la masacre dirigida por oficiales militares salvadoreños entrenados en Estados Unidos. Uno de los testigos expertos, la politóloga de la Universidad de Stanford, Terry Karl, detalló la presencia en el lugar del asesor militar estadounidense Allen Bruce Hazelwood con el ejército salvadoreño en el momento de la masacre, proporcionando una nueva perspectiva de lo que Karl llamó un “encubrimiento sofisticado” de los hechos en nombre de la administración Reagan y la junta militar salvadoreña.

 

Terry Karl: “La presencia de un asesor estadounidense con el general salvadoreño Monterrosa, cuyo nombre es Allen Bruce Hazelwood, si esto se hubiera hecho público en ese momento, en mi opinión y la opinión de Thomas Enders y otros secretarios de Estado, esto habría cortar la ayuda estadounidense, porque es ilegal “.

 

Puede leer más en este artículo publicado por EL FARO o en este publicado por DIARIO EL MUNDO en donde la doctora Karl hace una relación entre la masacre y el asesinato (aún impune) de monseñor Romero.

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