Turning ‘communists’ into ‘terrorists’ in El Salvador August 2, 2007 By Dennis Chinoy Back in the eighties, when the U.S. armed and funded the Salvadoran military to fight a proxy war against communism, delegations of visiting Americans to the embassy were commonplace. Appalled at the latest round of human rights abuses perpetrated by the army […]
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Archbishop Romero at Ninety: “Cease the Repression” August 15, 2007 In honor of Archbishop Romero’s birthday today, hundreds gathered this morning in San Salvador in commemoration of the Archbishop. The protesters, members of the Salvadoran social movement and civil society, are once again calling for an end to repression, 27 years after Romero made […]