Book Reveals New Details in Murder Plot of El Salvador's Archbishop Romero

[Judi Lynn]

Book Reveals New Details in Murder Plot of El Salvador's Archbishop Romero



Victims of El Salvador's civil war march with signs of Romero, Dec.16, 2014. | Photo: EFE

Published 19 January 2017 (14 hours 52 minutes ago)


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New facts revealed in the book "Assassination of a Saint" detail political elites’ sinister plot in El Salvador to assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero and the complicity of authorities and politicians who refused to stand up to the country’s elites.

In the book set to be published on Jan. 24, Matt Eisenbrandt is the first to craft a detailed narrative of the plan to murder Romero and ensuing efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice. Romero, a champion of social justice and liberation theology, was murdered while giving mass at a church in San Salvador in March 1980.

In the years leading up to his death, the archbishop frequently spoke out in favor of poor and marginalized Salvadorans and against right-wing death squads as his country grappled with deep-seated inequality and social unrest.

His murder was the catalyzing event that plummeted El Salvador into a brutal 12-year civil war that left an estimated 80,000 dead.

Through interviews with lawyers, human rights activists, witnesses and accomplices, Eisenbrandt exposes the implicit and explicit role of Salvadoran political, military and economic elites in the murder of the outspoken archbishop.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Book-Reveals-New-Details-in-Murder-Plot-of-Archbishop-Romero-20170119-0011.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Details of plot to murder archbishop scar Romero revealed in new book Matt Eisenbrandts Assassinat

Details of plot to murder archbishop Óscar Romero revealed in new book

Matt Eisenbrandt’s Assassination of a Saint details the plot to murder the El Salvadorian archbishop that sparked a civil war and offers an explanation

Nina Lakhani
Thursday 19 January 2017 04.00 EST


The assassination of the archbishop Óscar Romero as he celebrated mass in March 1980 remains one of the most notorious political murders of the 20th century. The murder plunged El Salvador into a full-blown civil war which eventually left 80,000 dead and 8,000 disappeared.

Romero is still one of Latin America’s most revered figures; his canonization – the final step to sainthood – is imminent. But almost four decades after his murder, the killers remain free.

A new book detailing the plot to murder the archbishop casts a spotlight on that impunity, unveiling previously unreported details of the conspiracy to kill Romero and offers an explanation: a refusal by El Salvador’s authorities and politicians to take on the country’s powerful elites.

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That included the Miami-based Salvadoran businessmen who funneled money to the death squads operated by Roberto D’Aubission – founder of the Arena party and named by the Fresno court as the “mastermind” of the Romero assassination.

One of the book’s most gripping sections is the testimony of a mole from a leftwing guerrilla group who during the 1980s worked at the Arena party headquarters. The rebel spy obtained access to a list of prominent financial donors funding death squads and also saw a “blacklist” of union leaders, teachers and others who were later killed. “Many of the top [party] leaders spoke with great pride about the activities of the death squads,” she said.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/archbishop-oscar-romero-murder-el-salvador-book

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