HeadlineApr 28, 2021
In El Salvador, pretrial hearings on the 1981 El Mozote massacre are being held this week. Nearly 1,000 civilians from across seven villages were killed in the massacre carried out by U.S.-trained Salvadoran military officers. One of the expert witnesses, Stanford University political scientist Terry Karl, detailed the on-site presence of U.S. military adviser Allen Bruce Hazelwood with the Salvadoran Army at the time of the massacre, providing new insight into what Karl referred to as a “sophisticated cover-up” of the events on behalf of the Reagan administration and the Salvadoran military junta.
Terry Karl: “The presence of an American adviser with Salvadoran General Monterrosa, whose name is Allen Bruce Hazelwood, if this had been made public at the time, in my opinion and the opinion of Thomas Enders and other secretaries of state, this would have cut U.S. aid, because this is illegal.”
Their Lawsuit Prevented 400,000 Deportations. Now Itâs Bidenâs Call.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/magazine/immigration-el-salvador.html
Cristina Morales, a T.P.S. holder, and her daughter, Crista, who are the lead plaintiffs in the case seeking to prevent the U.S. government from terminating the program for Salvadorans.Credit.Alessandra Sanguinetti/Magnum, for The New York Times
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Their Lawsuit Prevented 400,000 Deportations. Now Itâs Bidenâs Call.
Trump tried to end a 30-year program that shielded migrants, many fleeing conditions that U.S. foreign policy helped foster. What does America owe them?
Cristina Morales, a T.P.S. holder, and her daughter, Crista, who are the lead plaintiffs in the case seeking to prevent the U.S. government from terminating the program for Salvadorans.Credit.Alessandra Sanguinetti/Magnum, for The New York Times
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After Stanley Baldwin’s resignation, Ramsay MacDonald forms Britain’s first Labour Government, climaxing 24 years of struggle by the Labour Party. James Ramsay MacDonald was a British politician. In addition, he was the first Labour Party member to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then from 1929–31.
1930: Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
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With a surface temperature estimated at approximately -360 Fahrenheit, Pluto was appropriately given the Roman name for the “God of the Underworld” in Greek mythology. On this day in History, Clyde Tombaugh did a photoshoot of Pluto, discovered by Percival Lowell. However, the discovery was publically announced on March 13, 1930 – the anniversary of Lowell’s birth. In addition, William Herschel’s discovery of Uranus was announced.
A portrait of José Santos Guardiola circa mid-1850s. U.S. Library of Congress, CC BY
Honduran President José Santos Guardiola was assassinated in 1862, the only Honduran leader to meet that fate.
Now let’s compare the Honduran experience to America’s often violent relationship with the office of the president. There have been several assassination attempts against sitting U.S. presidents; four of them were successful.
Excluding the recent events on Capitol Hill, the state of Oklahoma has also experienced one event that could qualify as a coup when the Ku Klux Klan effectively overthrew the governor in the 1920s. But that event has largely been erased from America’s historical memory.