The brutality, murders and other anti-human rights crimes in Central America, especially El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, supported by the Reagan administration return after 20 years. The murders of Jesuits priests in El Salvador by that country's military enters the 21st century demanding accountability and justice.
Like this torture loving, anti-Constitution, anti-humanity criminal Bush regime, the two Reagan terms were known for the Iran-Contra crime and other tyrannical right wing dictators and their bloody rule supported and protected by Saint Ronnie and his corrupt crew.
Reagan even had the gall to compare the right wing contra death squads in Nicaragua to US founding fathers.
Iran-Contra was a criminal scandal that should have resulted in impeachment, but did not. And
Colin Powell, now being considered by the Obama administration for a cabinet post, was involved in Iran-Contra and lied, under oath, to Congress about his participation.
John Negroponte, now serving in the Dubya administration, was another Reagan flunky who, as ambassador to Honduras, knew about the torture and other human rights violations in that country and other places in Central America, yet ignored the crimes of the right wing regimes and promoted more US military aid to the criminal Honduran dictatorial government.
From the
NY Times:
"Nearly 20 years after the Salvadoran Army killed six Jesuit priests in one of the most notorious events of El Salvador's civil war, a criminal complaint filed in the Spanish High Court has revived hopes that those behind the massacre could face trial.
"Human rights lawyers filed a complaint on Thursday against the Salvadoran president at the time, Alfredo Cristiani Burkard, and 14 former members of the Salvadoran military, for their roles in the killings of the priests and two female employees, and in the official cover-up that followed. International outrage over the murders proved to be pivotal in sapping American support for United States military assistance to the Salvadoran Army.
" 'We hope this case helps to reawaken the memory and the conscience of El Salvador's people' said Almudena Bernabeu, a lawyer for the San Francisco-basedCenter for Justice and Accountability, a human rights law center, which filed the case along with the Spanish Association for Human Rights.
"The Spanish High Court must decide whether to press charges against the men and seek their extradition to Spain, Ms. Bernabeu said.
"The crusading Spanish judge Baltasar Garzan made legal history in 1998 when he secured the arrest in Britain of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet using a Spanish legal principle that crimes against humanity can be prosecuted anywhere. General Pinochet narrowly escaped extradition to Spain by pleading ill health. Since then, Spain's High Court has received cases connected to rights abuses in several countries, including Argentina, Chile and Guatemala."
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