This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 68%. (I'm a bot)
> In April, El Salvador began the final phase of pretrial hearings in the criminal case against the accused perpetrators of the 1981 El Mozote massacre.
> The massacre, which took place during the country's civil war of 1980-1992 and killed some one thousand civilians in and around the village of El Mozote - most of them children - was carried out by the US-trained and -funded Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran military.
> During the current round of pretrial hearings, political scientist and El Salvador expert Terry Karl testified that US military adviser Allen Bruce Hazelwood was present in the department of Morazán, where El Mozote is located, with Atlacatl Battalion commander Domingo Monterrosa when the massacre transpired.
> On January 28, 1982, for example - a month and a half after El Mozote - Reagan certified that El Salvador's government was "Making a concerted and significant effort to comply with internationally recognized human rights." This certification allowed military assistance to the country to continue and military advisers to remain stationed there.
> As Bonner writes in Weakness and Deceit, Reagan's celebration of Salvadoran efforts took place precisely one day after both the Washington Post and the New York Times had run stories about the massacre; according to a tally by the archdiocese's legal aid office, in the year preceding the certification "13,353 Salvadorans had been murdered by the Salvadoran Army, security forces, and paramilitary groups."
> As for the victims of El Mozote who aren't sitting here today - and who haven't been sitting here for nearly forty years - obstacles to justice have ranged from a postwar amnesty to pandemic-related delays to obstructive machinations by current Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele of the "New Ideas" party, who appears to be under the impression that fascism is a new idea.
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