Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvadoran military's arrest last Sunday of Jennifer Jean Casolo was almost spectacularly set up. A graduate of Brandeis University who served as a liason between visiting international officials and political groups in El Salvador Casolo was widely known as a devoted religious worker who played by the stringent political rules. Days after receiving an obscene and threatening phone call, the 28-year-old church worker found herself accused of hiding a huge cache of arms for the leftist guerillas...
These remarks are reminiscent of Jeane Kirkpatrick's condemnation of the four U.S. nuns raped and murdered by the Salvadoran military in 1980. The nuns, claimed Kirkpatrick, weren't "ordinary" church workers, but "subversives...
Nine years and billions of dollars later, our blindness and ignorance have contributed ot the deaths of more than 70,000 Salvadorans. Now that a U.S. citizen has been virtually taken hostage in El Salvador--if found guilty in a trial, Casola could face up to 25 years in a Salvadoran prison--a little sympathy, not to say defense, might be appropriate. Instead of this, however, the Bush administration has done everything it can to stack the deck against Casola, and in doing so, has bowed again to the mandates of a repressive government...
...Archbishop was speaking of the murder of the six Jesuits, who taught at the University of Central America, one of the country's most respected ! institutions and a center for leftist theological activism. In the worst attack on Salvadoran Catholic activists since the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980, they were mowed down by M-16 rifle fire at their campus residence Thursday morning; a cook at the university and her 15-year- old daughter were also cut down. The government promptly ordered an investigation, hinting that the rebels were responsible. But the brutal massacre was widely believed...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...