El Salvador. The Innocent Victims. | Under the Shadow, Ep 4

1980s El Salvador was ground zero for the US intervention in Central America. The United States would funnel over $6 billion US dollars to El Salvador in mostly military aid and police and security training throughout the country’s 12-year civil war, which would last from 1980 until 1992.
The violence and the US support for the country's bloody authoritarian regimes would have a deadly cost, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of innocent victims.
In this episode, journalist Michael Fox heads to San Salvador where he visits a memorial for the innocent victims and looks at the legacy of El Salvador's civil war today.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened-a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox. This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
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[@Perspectiveon]

This series should be mandatory for Americans to listen to.

[@delfogarcia993]

As someone whose family migrated from El Salvador after the Civil War there. This coverage and series has touched me personally. Not only that but this was an accurate presentation of the Civil War from its beginnings and aftermath! ❤

[@evangel1737]

My Father was from Ponce Puerto Rico and there was a massacre there by U.S. military on Palm Sunday March 21, 1937 The story is called “The War Against All Puerto Ricans” a book and also on YT I totally appreciated this podcast and will listen to it again. Thanks for such great shows across the board.

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

These series are very much appreciated here. Thank you❤

[@e.t.2230]

United States “civil war” lol

[@derry3344ii]

I remember that civil war when I was 19 I can say this is when lost my innocence 😭

[@chito127]

Bukele has a tiger by the tail. He can't let the any prisoners go. Anyone who is released can be used by the gang members who are still inside.

[@killeryhiltons8499]

Arena and the FMLN are evil both played Salvadoran people and outsiders took advantage of them as well tragedy ova smh.

[@carlo6912]

I was a child when the war started and remember seeing young men being pulled out of public buses to serve in the military. This was obviously funded by the US.

[@manuelgchapajr2000]

I served in El Salvador as a young Green Beret. There was never any goal or plan for winning. Just a complete waste of time and innocent lives on both sides. CSM Chapa

[@ptewilks2634]

Shame you could not celebrate ElSalvador of 2023-2024 total yank bs discusting