Dirty Diplomacy: An Analysis of U. S. Foreign Policy Towards the Salvadoran Civil War and the Massacre at El Mozote.

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Abstract: The 2016 Salvadoran Supreme Court decision to remove the 1993 Amnesty Law and the current legislative battle in El Salvador over the introduction of yet another amnesty proposal has catapulted the case of the El Mozote massacre to the forefront of the human rights discussion. At its core, this paper asks, what was the role of the United States in the Salvadoran Civil War, particularly at the massacre at El Mozote? Additionally, it explores the significance of this involvement in 2019, as prosecutions in the case move forward. The existing literature on human rights during the Salvadoran Civil War predominantly focuses on the culpability of Salvadoran military government members in committing human rights abuses between 1979 and 1992. Meanwhile, there seems to be relatively less attention paid to the role of the U.S. during this period—it is commonly only acknowledged in passing. Thus, using a descriptive analytic framework, this paper explores the U.S. economic and military contributions, political involvement, and judicial reforms that arguably hurt rather than helped the search for justice in El Salvador’s civil war and in particular at the 1981 massacre at El Mozote.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2019

Author	Cornejo Guillen, Karen Veronica

Subject	Salvadoran Civil War
Subject	American Foreign Policy
Subject	Human Rights
Subject	El Mozote
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	Center for Latin American Studies
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/pr125cv7081

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Preferred Citation: Cornejo Guillen, Karen Veronica. (2019). Dirty Diplomacy: An Analysis of U. S. Foreign Policy Towards the Salvadoran Civil War and the Massacre at El Mozote. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/pr125cv7081

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