SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As Ronald Reagan’s body was carried back to California for burial, Central American activists staged a protest Friday to remind the world that Reagan’s foreign policies were linked to thousands of deaths in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
About 100 people, hoisting plywood crosses painted with the names of people thought to have lost their lives to military-backed death squads during the early 1980s, marched eight blocks through the city’s heavily Hispanic Mission District in an angry answer to the accolades that accompanied the end of the 40th president’s life.
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