Times magazine, recounts in The Massacre at El Mozote a horrific crime against humanity committed by a branch of the Salvadorian army. He gives multiple points of views and cites numerous eye witnesses to try and piece together something that has been tucked away by the government at the time. In December, of 1981, news reports were leaked to major newspapers in the united states about an atrocity committed and a total massacre of a hamlet in El Salvador, known as El Mozote, or the Thicket. At first,
The Cold War, despite being not being an actual declared war, was a devastating time for humanity. It struck fear in the heart of people all over the world. Paranoia of the possible destruction of, not just whole communities and countries, but also the entire world lead was rapid. Danner and Berniers both depict how the Cold War affected Latin America extremely well in their respective pieces when writing about communism influence on everyone from the government to civilians, the military’s radical
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November 16, 1989 in El Salvador, six Jesuit Priests and scholars along with their housekeeper and her daughter were murdered. This took place during the Salvadoran Civil War at the campus of the University of Central America. Armed men stormed their place of residency and took them down. This massacre was caused because of the opposition from El Salvadoran political forces to the duties and commitment of the Jesuits. The murder of these people marked a great turn in the El Salvadoran civil War.