Monsenor Romero

Video Part 1
About ten minutes into the video I was taken back by the women who were reading off the names of their children that were missing. In particular, the poor woman who named four of her sons(Mendoza).

Video Part 2
"It was the height of the recession when they caught and beheaded people and dumped the bodies for people to see. They wanted to instill fear"

Response to Part 1
I was taken back by how horrifying it must have been for thee elderly mothers to know that their sons "disappeared" after seeing the violence all around they must have known inside that the chances of seeing their children, let alone them being alive were slim to none. No parent should ever have to bury their child but this is a whole new level knowing that they were taken by member of ORDEN and the national guard and most likely tortured before death.

Response to Part 2
I was really shook up after seeing the graphic footage of those men decomposing in that ditch. It made the documentary very real at that moment. Not that it did not move me in some kind of way before but after a visual of flies and bugs literally eating these men as they lay dead so young it really effected me. And to think this was a daily occurrence for these people to see being as they wanted to "instill fear" there was many brutal visuals they must have seen. That is so scary to think that any human can lose themselves so far in evil that they go to the extreme of killing in such a way that it was for show.

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