The assassinations of the UCA scholars and Archbishop Romero were part of a decades-long U.S. military campaign to wipe out Liberation Theology and other forms of political agency throughout Latin America. This war was waged through terror and violence by client regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and other states. Hundreds of thousands of peasants, clergy, labor leaders, students, scholars, and human rights activists were targeted and eliminated because they shared the belief that people should be able to freely participate in their government and their economy...The military proudly declared on its Web site that Liberation Theology “was defeated with the assistance of the U.S. Army.” Through instructions codified in the SOA Manuals, Latin American trainees – many of whom later became members of death squads, irregular paramilitary forces, and leaders of military dictatorships – were taught to use “torture, extortion, blackmail and the targeting of civilian populations.”
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:04:56 +0000
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