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My latest: The massacre Trump’s envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/…
The Post’s Alma Guillermoprieto, who reached El Mozote in January 1982, found “dozens of decomposing bodies,” left to molder for a month in the ruins of the flattened village and adjacent fields washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/…
“We could hear the women being raped on the hills,” one witness said. “And then, you know, the soldiers would pass by, coming from there, and they’d talk about it. You know, they were talking and joking, saying how much they liked the 12-year-olds.” washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/…
Abrams worked to suppress news of the massacre, dismissing the reports as not “credible” and enabling the guerrillas’ propaganda. “He was the point of the spear of the Reagan administration in denying a massacre had taken place at El Mozote,” -Mark Danner washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/…
Here’s the 1993 @NewYorker cover that accompanied a lengthy story by Mark Danner, whom I spoke to yesterday 
