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For its part, the Bush administration harbors figures like Elliott Abrams, who, as a chief Reagan spin-doctor on Central American affairs, steadfastly denied that horrific abuses ever happened.
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ahhhh, so you liberals think that a "spin doctor" should face prosecution while el salvadoran murderers go free? typical of your kind.
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Mentioning one notorious site of terror, The New York Times noted in January that the families of those villagers massacred at El Mozote have long been denied the "foundations of healing" -- the prosecution of criminals, the official naming of victims, and appreciation of the urgent need for relatives "to possess a shard of bone to bury."
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well, I suggest the elsalvadoran government do it then. Even if they have to spend some of the billions of dollars the US gives them to do it.
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As neoliberals rush to forget the past, they may yet provoke its repetition. Francisco Flores has advocated that U.N. to return to conduct a "closing ceremony" for the Peace Accords, asserting that "the agreement to fortify democracy in the country has been completed." Furthermore, he has explained that with this matter settled, he will have nothing further to discuss with the leading opposition party.
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why should he have something to discuss with the communists if your goal is democracy and not communism. (I'm thinking the writer is a closet communist)
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Neither Flores nor Bush seem to understand that the pursuit of democracy and human rights must always be an on-going process.
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By saying this, Mark Engler exposes himself as someone who doesn't understand that its up to el salvador, not president Bush to make their country work.
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In January, Hector Dada Hirezi, a leading commentator and past member of a transitional national government, argued that Salvadorans are finding the Peace Accords, based on the premise of ending war without producing winners and losers, being supplanted by an economic system in which the poor lose and economic elites win.
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oh, the mantra of the communist.
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More ominously, a major human rights institute at the University of Central America in San Salvador has warned that the government, in charting its present course, is "cooking a broth of violence." The rhetoric of poverty reduction has long been a part of U.S. policy in Latin America. While foreign aid can be used to good ends, allowing humanitarian gestures to disguise the policies that continue to brew poverty and injustice constitutes a recipe for crisis.
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is this even an acreditted school?
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Bush need only consider Argentina, a past neoliberal poster child whose dollarized currency and foreign debt spiraled into economic meltdown. Or go no further than El Salvador itself, where the issues that provoked the country's long civil war look all too similar to the poverty, inequality, and corruption that persist today.
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yes, some savages should be left to their own devises. Throwing billions of dollars in aid at them doesn't help. they aren't bright enough.
