Marable weighs in

[Michael Pugliese]

>Good estimate. The death squads in ES killed maybe 300,000 people in the
>1980s.

   I've read that from the mid-50's to the mid-90's the Guatemalan
counter-insurgency killed "only" 200,000+.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB15/01-01.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/guatemala.html
Pastors for Peace here
http://www.ifconews.org/p4phis.html
, claims 80,000 for the Salvadorean conflict.

Michael Pugliese