El Salvador’s Military Justice Exposes Cold War Atrocities, But U.S. Backing Remains Unexamined

In a move stirring echoes of Cold War era reckoning, three former El Salvador military officers were sentenced late Thursday for their roles in the brutal 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war.Former Defense Minister Gen. José Guillermo García, age 91, treasury police director Col. Francisco Morán, 93, and Col. Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, 85, received lengthy prison terms that are effectively life sentences given their advanced ages.The court delivered cumulative sentences that total up to 60 years but capped at the maximum legal term of 30 years applicable at the time these crimes were committed....