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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Because of the war, I think some of the more extreme right-wing supporters targeted people who were visible and outspoken about a peaceful solution to the war," says Pablo Mateu-Llort, a United Nations advisor working in El Salvador. "Definitely those priests were more outspoken supporters of dialogue."
The Jesuits also controlled two prestigious, academic, often anti-government publications: Estudio Centralamericana [ECA], a sociological journal, and La Boletin, an economics publication.
Under its editor-in-chief, Martin-Baro, ECA often published figures and analyses at odds with U.S. and Salvadoran government figures, Mullaney says.
"People in the U.S. embassy always disagreed with their analyses and the results of their analyses, calling them leftist or marxist," he says. "The figures that they would use on the number of people actually killed by the military or by death squads were always higher than those reported by...
La Boletin also often found itself working against U.S. and government interests.