El Mozote

Source: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/12/2021

The U.S. Role in the El Mozote Massacre Echoes in Today’s Immigration

by Nelson Rauda and John Washington

Renewed efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of the 1981 El Mozote massacre of Salvadoran civilians during the civil war will further demonstrate American involvement in the perpetuation of inequality and violence in Central America and, the authors argue, the hypocrisy of US immigration policy.