Harold Pinter On Jesuits

Harold Pinter, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, writes. An excerpt.

I spoke earlier about ‘a tapestry of lies’ which surrounds us. President Reagan commonly described Nicaragua as a ‘totalitarian dungeon’. This was taken generally by the media, and certainly by the British government, as accurate and fair comment. But there was in fact no record of death squads under the Sandinista ( real name is Sandinista National Liberation Front) government. There was no record of torture. There was no record of systematic or (except for the massacre of the Miskitos Indians, oh and (here) and (here) ) official military brutality. No priests were ever murdered in Nicaragua.

There were in fact three priests in the government, two Jesuits and a Maryknoll missionary.

The totalitarian dungeons were actually next door, in El Salvador and Guatemala. The United States had brought down the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954 and it is estimated that over 200,000 people had been victims of successive military dictatorships.

Six of the most distinguished Jesuits in the world were viciously murdered

at the Central American University in San Salvador in 1989 by a battalion of the Alcatl regiment trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA.

Note: The Sandinista's are and were a Marxist atheistic anti-Catholic regime

Link (here)

Harold Pinter's obituary (here)