Word: ahumada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sealed gray casket of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero rested on the steps of San Salvador's huge Metropolitan Cathedral, a wreath of red roses at its head. Mexican Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, the personal delegate of Pope John Paul II, had just finished a eulogy, praising Romero as a "beloved, peacemaking man of God" and prophesying that "his blood will give fruit to brotherhood, love and peace." Suddenly, the outdoor funeral service in the center of El Salvador's capital was transformed into a tableau of horror: exploding hand bombs, wild gunfire, terrified crowds stampeding in panic...
Today a six-block stretch of Calle Ahumada in Santiago is one of South America's busiest commercial malls. Brightly painted signs pull shoppers into new boutiques stuffed with madras dresses from India, art supplies from Germany and motorcycles from Japan. The adjoining streets are jammed with honking hordes of shiny cars and trucks of every modern make. Workers are digging trenches for an extension of the Santiago subway. However, La Moneda palace, where Pinochet's predecessor, Marxist Salvador Allende, was killed in 1973, remains begrimed and run down...
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