Posts Tagged ‘Bishop Oscar Romero’

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In El Salvador, Leaders Wary Of Civil War-Era Human Rights Probes

September 1, 2011

USF memorial to victims of the 1989 Jesuit massacres (Flickr/Steve Rhodes)

Even as it grapples with a new era of domestic security woes, violence-plagued El Salvador continues to be haunted by ghosts of its last internal conflict: a 12-year civil war (1980-1992) that resulted in some 75,000 deaths and an estimated 8,000 disappearances. Read the rest of this entry ?

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