EPISODE 105: Rationalizing Evil in El Salvador

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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I am sorry to be taking you on this dark journey, but I strongly feel this is an important story that everyone should know. Over the years, I've tackled some heavy topics. This is definitely one of the heaviest. This episode covers some of the things that happened in El Salvador in the 1980s, in particular the story of the massacre at El Mozote, and how policies formulated by the White House supported death squads unleashing hell on civilians. As much as humanly possible, I'll try to let the facts speak for themselves and not inject too much of my own commentary. I'll pose here again the question that I asked in my previous episode… I'd like you to picture some of the most awful human beings you could possibly imagine… genocidal maniacs, torturers, child rapists. Got the picture? Ok. Now I'd like you to imagine if you can conceive of any circumstances in which not only you wouldn't do everything in your power to stop them, but you would actually support them. Can you think of any scenario that would warrant you supporting people like that? Can you picture yourself fighting hard to make sure they have millions of dollars and supplies to carry out their activities? Keep your answer in mind as you listen to this episode.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 105 of History on Fire.
0:04.0	This is the second part of a two-part series regarding the history of El Salvador in the 1970s and
0:11.0	1980s.
0:12.0	In the previous episode I covered the 1970s and 1980s. In the previous episode I covered the 1970s portion today we go into
0:17.2	the 1980s. Before we got going I should touch on a couple of things. One, the fact that this podcast exists primarily thanks to
0:27.8	listener support. You know, I get a few ads here and there, but primarily the thing that keeps me in business is
0:33.4	honestly listener support either subscribing on substock or on patron where people usually
0:40.9	drop something like five bucks a month and in addition to keeping the show alive, they also get some bonus episodes.
0:47.5	So if you want to check that out, I'll have links in the episode notes, both for my Patreon and for sub-stack. The content deliver is
0:55.8	pretty much the same in so either one of those is fine. And speaking of patron I
1:00.9	want to give a shout out to the folks donating at the highest possible
1:04.5	level much beyond the five dollars and I would be Mr Mark Chang chimim-Moxam Justin Bourne and
1:12.1	Julian Bailey. Thank you, thank you for your support. So if you
1:16.2	want to join this brave band of heroes please head to patron or to sub-stuck to keep
1:21.5	history on fire alive. Having said that quick I should also mention that I have a
1:27.2	YouTube channel that I've been working on for a few months I create different content there I mean there are a few old episodes of
1:34.8	Eastern Fire that I published there but beside that there's also a whole bunch of
1:40.8	original content usually short videos anywhere from like
1:44.1	six seven minutes maybe up to 13 some occasions mixing me talking in the mic but also a lot of historical footage and paintings and
1:56.9	things related to the theme of those episodes so these are basically mini
2:00.9	documentaries since you are listening to this podcast, I assume they are interested in history on fire stuff.
2:07.0	So check out history on fire official on YouTube and you get to see all those videos. I want to give a
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