"In the 1980s, the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White, admitted
the preternaturally violent nature of the military and the oligarchy, reporting that their ideal solution to the civil war was not simply the defeat of
the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (fmln) but apocalypse: they wanted the country to be “destroyed totally, the economy must be wrecked, unemployment must be massive” and a “cleansing” of some “3 or 4 or 500,000 people” must be carried out. 61" G. Grandin