Ronald Reagan in Letters from Nuremberg, by Chris Dodd

On Foreign Policy: OpEd: Viewed Latin America in context of worldwide Communism

The big human rights debates of the early 1980s centered on Latin America. President Reagan reduced the many volatile political situations in Central America to what he saw as a worldwide Communist plot, making the region a major focus of his foreign parties, and in President Reagan's view, it was necessary to back down those who stood against Communism, no matter their own records on human rights.

President Reagan, for example, wanted to send support to the government of El Salvador, led at the time by a civilian/military junta, which was fighting leftist guerillas. The government's notorious death squads also targeted those who opposed its power.

Source: Letters from Nuremberg, by Chris Dodd, p. 18 Sep 11, 2007

The above quotations are from Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice, by Christopher Dodd & Lary Bloom. Click here for other excerpts from Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice, by Christopher Dodd & Lary Bloom. Click here for other excerpts by Ronald Reagan. Click here for a profile of Ronald Reagan.
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