Commitment Beyond Morality: American Complicity in the Massacre at El Mozote, El Salvador, 1981

<p>In order to highlight the complicity of the American government, this thesis will discuss in depth the most important massacre perpetrated by the Salvadoran military. While the American government maintained publicly that respect for human rights was one of the main goals of its mission in El Salvador, the six billion dollars of aid and American actions in the region belied another reality. This examination argues that it is clear that the massacre at El Mozote in late 1981 was the direct result of U.S. foreign policy initiatives. Although the Americans kept themselves insulated to provide for plausible deniability, the policies of the Carter and Reagan administrations institutionalized the murder of civilians as a necessary element of American foreign policy in El Salvador. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2011

Author dc:creator

• Hill, Dustin

• Atlacatl Battalion
• Central America
• El Mozote
• El Salvador
• Massacre
• United States Foreign Policy
• International Relations
• Latin American History

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2011 Dustin Hill

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/49

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1048