“A Bed to Drop Dead In”
“A Bed to Drop Dead In”
The Search for Álvaro Saravia and the Death Squad Financiers
This chapter describes the filing of the legal case against Alvaro Saravia as well as several unnamed “Doe” defendants, designations intended to be filled with the identities of death squad financiers with connections to the United States. The chapter presents the documentation and evidence that describes the alleged funding of the death squads, including the Saravia Diary and a U.S. embassy cable about a group called the “Miami Six”. It transitions to a discussion of how, as a full-scale civil war raged, many of the Salvadoran oligarchs teamed up with Roberto D’Aubuisson to create the ARENA political party while the U.S. administration of Ronald Reagan greatly increased economic assistance to the Salvadoran military responsible for so much of the repression.
Keywords: Saravia, financiers, Miami Six, Saravia diary, death squads, ARENA, Reagan, D’Aubuisson
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