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Article: Why El Salvador matters.(EDITORIALS)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- June 27, 2008
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In 1981, only weeks into the first term of Ronald Reagan, Secretary of State Alexander Haig addressed the president's obsession with fighting communism by assuring Reagan that El Salvador is "one we can win."
Nearly 30 years later, as El Salvador approaches crucial national elections, it remains one of history's tragic ironies that the fate of this tiny Central American nation may still hang on what we mean by an American victory there.
Peace accords in 1992 ended a brutal 12-year civil war that killed 75,000 people, mostly civilians. El Salvador might have emerged to become what nature had blessed it to be--a tropical paradise--and what real friendship ...