Live Breaking News & Updates on Manuel Escalante Saracais

With U.S. weapons, Salvadoran military massacred a village. The trial continues.
The story of the December 1981 attack carries on. Florida veterans recall their part in the country’s civil war.
 
 
Visitors look at the names of those killed in the massacre at El Mozote, where about 1,000 people died in December 1981. [ DANIELLE VILLASANA | Special to the Times ]
Updated Dec. 10, 2020
EL SALVADOR - Inside a dimly lit garage, sweating from the heat of the flat-top grill before her, Sofía Romero Pereira shapes the dough in her hands. She lays down
pupusas — Salvadoran stuffed corn cakes — and the sizzle creates a symphony broken only by the occasional laughter from diners telling jokes. ....

El Salvador , New York , United States , Tampa Bay , Departamento De Morazan , Republic Of , San Salvador , El Mozote , La Joya , Departamento De San Miguel , Sankt Peterburg , Fordham University , New Yorker , Agapito Santos , Manuel Escalante Saracais , Yorkerwriter Mark Danner , Terry Karl , Paul Morgan , Nayib Bukele , Chato Vargas , Hector Lindo Fuentes , Derechos Humanos , Romero Pereira , Jose Ruiz , Department Of Defense , Kennedy Administration ,