El Salvador: Do the documents declassified by the US reveal the reality of the 1980s?

Authors

  • Rafael Romero Curtin University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51378/eca.v74i758.3113

Keywords:

Interventionism, Strategic mutualistic symbiosis, Hegemony, Militarism, Oligarchy, Scorched earth, Perpetrators of crimes against humanity, Human rights

Abstract

Some of the extensive documents that the United States (U.S.) possesses regarding the true political history of El Salvador in the 1980s have been declassified. Significant portions of many of these documents have been deliberately redacted. Even so, it is possible to piece together at least part of the real story. These documents reveal a history very different from the official version presented at the time by the governments of El Salvador and its armed forces, a version that was endorsed by successive U.S. administrations. These documents are self-incriminating. If international laws were not clearly based on a double standard, U.S. and Salvadoran officials would already have been prosecuted and convicted of crimes against humanity.

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Published

2019-09-30

How to Cite

Romero, R. (2019). El Salvador: Do the documents declassified by the US reveal the reality of the 1980s?. ECA: Estudios Centroamericanos, 74(758), 403–425. https://doi.org/10.51378/eca.v74i758.3113

Issue

Vol. 74 No. 758 (2019)

Section

Artículos

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