Remembering The 1989 #Massacre Of Jesuits In El Salvador : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779628824/remembering-the-1989-massacre-of-jesuits-in-el-salvador
HAJEK: The Jesuit murders drew the world’s attention to a crisis in El #Salvador, and Congress faced mounting pressure to end American support of a brutal military regime. A U.N.-sponsored report in 1993 concluded that the Jesuits were killed by a Salvadoran army battalion trained and equipped by the United States. As for Lucia Cerna, sitting in her living room 30 years later, she still wonders if she could have somehow changed the hearts of the soldiers who killed her friends.
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HAJEK: During the 1980s, the United States sent over $4 billion to El Salvador’s anti-communist military regime. But El Salvador’s military, supported by the U.S., kidnapped, tortured and killed innocent civilians.