The U.S. knew the Army slaughtered villagers in the 1988 Cayara massacre but viewed the deaths as a baseline reality, weighing a prosecutor's life against the utility of a military ally.
By Theo Marchetti ·
A secret cable kept hidden for decades describes how a death squad leader gambled on who would execute a priest, while the US Embassy watched from the sidelines.
By Theo Marchetti ·
A secret cable from 1981 naming a killer stayed out of the public eye while the man who ordered the hit on Archbishop Romero climbed into the halls of power
By Theo Marchetti ·
Peruvian peasants were trapped between Maoist strikes and state-backed death threats in a region where the law ceased to exist for the military.
By Theo Marchetti ·
A 1981 intelligence cable shows the US monitoring a rebel broadcast to track the murder of Archbishop Romero, while the killers remained protected by a wall of silence.
By Desmond Okafor ·