Civilwar in El Salvador

twelve years

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[XxShindouxX]

what the name of the song in the begining of the video

[veggabacken]

Yolocamba Ita - El Salvador Ta Venciendo

[2anthro]

The next time some fat assed American "liberal" starts spouting off about how effin wonderful they are, refer them to this video.

These warriors fought for a GD piece of ground to raise corn and their brown babies.

For 12 years they crawled on their bellies thru that jungle doing whatever they had to in hopes of a better way for their children's futures.

At the surrender, they came in open bed trucks to lay down their arms.

I will never forget their faces, I was there.

[youngguard009]

Vive La Liberata!

Vive La FMLN!

Greetings from Sri Lanka!

Dear FMLN comrades, we had a similar movement like yours and undergone similar experience like you. (But we were far less equiped). Then after more than 60,000 deaths within just two years (1988/89) we suffered at the hands of rightwing killer squads sponsored by UNP government.

We succeded in democratic ways steadily and become a true force in last 10 years.

Alas, our present leaders are now joining hands with reactioneries, the UNP

[Horhey0420]

"The Reagan administration came to adopt prodemocracy policies as a means of relieving pressure for more radical change, but inevitably sought only limited, top-down forms of democratic change that did not risk upsetting the traditional structures of power with which the United States has long been allied."

[Horhey0420]

"The deep fear in the United States government of populist-based change in Latin America-with all its implications for upsetting established economic and political orders and heading off in a leftist direction- leads to an emphasis on incremental change from the top down."

[Horhey0420]

Thomas Carothers: "The underlying U.S. goal is maintaining the basic societal orders of particular Latin American countries approximately as they are-ensuring that the economics are not drastically rearranged and that the power relations of the various social sectors are not turned upside down. The underlying objective is to maintain the basic order of what, historically at least, are quite undemocratic societies."

[Horhey0420]

@v3rsatil3akadonve the FMLN party was just overwhelmingly elected into office.

[Horhey0420]

@uh1hcobra The International Court of Justice also concluded that there was no credible evidence proving that the Nicraguan government was supplying the Salvadoran rebels with weapons.

[Horhey0420]

@uh1hcobra Continued..

The tile copy includes this notation from a US government official who read and evaluated it "From this," the American wrote, "it would appear they had only 626 weapons for more than 9000 men." This document was omitted from the collection released to the press with the white paper.

[Horhey0420]

@uh1hcobra Continued.. The contention of the white paper that the Salvadoran rebels were enjoying the benefits of "nearly 200 tons" of communist-supplied arms and materiel is not supported anywhere in these documents, and is implicitly refuted by many of them. In document after document there are reports of rebels short of arms, or looking for ways to buy arms, or exhorting comrades to produce home-made arms, or plotting to kidnap wealthy Salvadorans thought to have access to private arsenals.

[Horhey0420]

@uh1hcobra The Washington Post: : White Paper on El Salvador is Faulty

The State Department's white paper on El Salvador, published in February, contains factual errors, misleading statements and unresolved ambiguities that raise serious questions about the administration's interpretation of participation by communist countries in the Salvadoran civil war.

To be continued..

[Horhey0420]

@uh1hcobra The US took control of the bureaucracy of death cause, "the administration could not conceive of an El Salvador in which the military was not the dominant actor, the economic elite no longer held the national economy in its hands, the left was incorporated into the political system, and all Salvadorans actually had both the formal and substantial possibility of political participation. In short, the US government had no real conception of democracy in El Salvador."

-Thomas Carothers

[uh1hcobra]

@Horhey0420 I don't doubt the information you saw but I dare say it probably wasn't the complete picture. I was one of the troops that "was not in ES" in 84 - 85 and again in 86. In our case, we discovered information showing arms being channeled through the Gulf of Fonseca. Some munitions made there way to Morazan Province.