Mr. Speaker. the killing goes on in El Salvador. Despite progress at the negotiating table. soldiers and citizens are still dying. This dirty little civil war has taken a shocking toll. In a nation of only 5 million people. 70.000 have been killed. 8.000 disappeared. and 1 million have been turned into refugees. The people of El Salvador want the war to stop. Yet the killing goes on. Weve propped up a brutal and corrupt regime in El Salvador to the tune of more than $4 billion. A huge share of our money goes to the Salvadoran military. whose corruption and brutality is as bad as it gets in the Western Hemisphere.
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