U.S. Military Assistance to El Salvador
In response to your editorial, it is my opinion that the Bush Administration cannot come down too hard on the monster it helped to create. The Acatlatl Battalion which murdered the six Jesuits and their two women associates was conceived and advised by the Reagan-Bush Administration.
Among its other murderous misdeeds, the Acatlatl on one day murdered a thousand civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly. That infamous day in ’81 is known to all the El Salvadoran peasants as the Mozote Massacre. There hasn’t been the slightest hint of an admission, let alone an apology, from the U.S.-advised murderers.
If Washington wasn’t upset with a massacre as great as Mozote, it won’t make too much of an effort with the six Jesuits and two women. Our policy with El Salvador is simply based on the proverb: “Time erases memories.” How can President Bush admit that he has been an accomplice to murder, mass murder, for the past 10 years?
REV. LAWRENCE A.
CASTAGNOLA, S.J.
Sacramento
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