Published: 1 August 2005
Paperback, B Format
129x198mm, 320 pages
ISBN: 9781862077850
£8.99
The Massacre At El Mozote
A Parable Of The Cold War
Overview
In December 1981, the inhabitants of a small Salvadoran hamlet were systematically exterminated by the Atacatl Battalion, a US-trained counter-insurgency force. The Reagan administration, determined to preserve US support for El Salvador's war against leftist guerrillas, downplayed reports of this massacre, dismissing them as propaganda, and the American-funded war in El Salvador continued. Mark Danner's subsequent reconstruction is a masterpiece of scrupulous investigative journalism and a testament to the forgotten victims of one of the worst massacres in Latin American history.
About the author
MARK DANNER, hailed as 'one of our best, most ambitious narrative journalists' by Susan Sontag, has worked as a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. Since 2000, while continuing to work as a journalist, Danner has been Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including Torture and Truth. More about the author
