The Reagan Administration's Tactical Assassination of the Salvadoran Government

The Reagan administration was trying to sell Congress on a partnership with the Salvadoran government. When El Mazzotay happened, they wrote it off as a trick by left-wing guerrillas. But then two days before Congress's deadline, the New York Times and the Washington Post both published front page stories about the massacre. This is really important to talk about for more reasons than just understanding historic crime. It has bearing on what's going to happen to a lot of people listening to this podcast in the future if things go as bad as could go.