Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: March 24, 1980 – Conservative Archbishop Romero assassination

1977: Oscar Romero, a conservative priest, appointed Archbishop of San Salvador 1979: Bloodless coup by reformist army officers backed by the United States. Military-civilian junta installed in El Salvador. Torture, assassinations, kidnappings intensify. Feb 1980: Romero visited Rome and argued that it was problematic to support the Salvadoran government because

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: March 24, 1980 – Conservative Archbishop Romero assassination

1977: Oscar Romero, a conservative priest, appointed Archbishop of San Salvador 1979: Bloodless coup by reformist army officers backed by the United States. Military-civilian junta installed in El Salvador. Torture, assassinations, kidnappings intensify. Feb 1980: Romero visited Rome and argued that it was problematic to support the Salvadoran government because

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