@RobertEllsberg on Twitter: "Whatever our image of our country, it must make room for the knowledge that we trained and equipped people who killed 500 children and their parents in a single village and then helped cover up the crime. Remember El Mozote. https://t.co/iBg0Dv6By6" / Twitter

Whatever our image of our country, it must make room for the knowledge that we trained and equipped people who killed 500 children and their parents in a single village and then helped cover up the crime. Remember El Mozote. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0

11:56 AM · May 17, 2021

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And then the NYT fired reporter Ray Bonner for having the temerity to publish the truth.

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Tin Man

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May 18, 2021

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador's US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote. The GOP's proclivity for spilling the blood of non-whites goes back quite a ways.

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