| On December 11, 1981, the inhabitants of a small Salvadoran hamlet were systematically exterminated by an elite U.S.-trained counterinsurgency Batallion. The Reagan administration, determined to preserve U.S. support for El Salvador's war against leftist guerrillas, downplayed reports of this massacre. The White House ignored and deflected reports that hundreds of unarmed women, children and men were heartlessly tortured and murdered. These events occurred in the course of an anti-communist/leftist movement. |
