Arguably, the most crucial contribution to the failure to prosecute such crimes has been the absence of a demand for justice from the United States, which has played an extensive and complicit role in supporting repressive military regimes across the Americas, particularly in Central America. Even as the United States takes a lead role in demanding that war crimes tribunals be set up in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, its silence with respect to Central America speaks volumes. Over the next decades, U.S. progressives will have to continue to demand that the United States declassify all information concerning war crimes and human rights violations in Central and South America, and that the U.S. government itself be held accountable to the victims in Guatemala,and elsewhere,for whatever portion of responsibility it bears for the repression, pain and suffering caused by those crimes. Judith Mahoney Pasternak. Robert Cooney, Kate Donnelly, Larry Gara, Carol Jahnkow, Andy Mager, Matt Meyer, Craig Simpson.
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