Response to Gabby's Blog

You bring up a very good point here Gabby. I learned about the Desaparecidos in my Spanish class in high school and I was completely horrified. It's hard for me to believe that the United States just sat by and let this happen- and even worse, that we were involved in installing the government that did this! Like you said, I would hope that if something like this happened today that we would step in and try to stop it, but at the same time we have to be cautious. Maybe when the U.S. supported the government back when, they also thought they were doing the right thing. If we went to try to help again, maybe we would once again end up making the situation even worse for the people that lived there. Foreign involvement is a very tricky situation- is it better to try and help and possibly worsen the situation? Or is it better to stay away and let other countries go their own course