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...death came for the Archbishop cuts deep into the soul of El Salvador. At 6 p.m. on March 24, 1980, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador and an outspoken critic of the military terrorism that was ravaging the country, was celebrating Mass in the small, humid chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. As he delivered his sermon, a gunshot shattered the calm of the ceremony. The Archbishop toppled to the floor, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Blood stained the white altar cloth. Bending down to give the gray-haired prelate a final kiss...
Forgiveness comes hard in a country that has seen 70,000 lives taken over the past eight years, by both the assaults of a Marxist-led rebellion and the terror of a right-wing military and its shadowy death-squad allies. But unforgiving El Salvador had appeared in recent years to forget the pursuit of its beloved Archbishop's assassins -- until last week. Speaking to reporters at the Ilopango military air base, President Jose Napoleon Duarte announced that an informant had linked Romero's murder to Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist political foe and a former army major long...
...death squads. At the same time, prominent leaders of the leftist Salvadoran rebels returned home, testing Duarte's compliance with the Central American peace accord that he and five other regional leaders signed in August. A miscalculation in balancing right against left could not only plunge El Salvador into a new round of death-squad killings but also jeopardize the entire peace process...
...days later, Garay fled El Salvador, finding refuge in an unnamed foreign country for seven years. Then, two weeks ago, he returned, apparently under a guarantee of immunity from prosecution. Saravia had also fled abroad. One night last week in Miami, Metro-Dade County police knocked on the door of his rented Kendall town house and lured him outside by claiming that his van had been involved in a hit-and-run accident. They were suddenly joined by U.S. marshals and immigration agents, who arrested him on a charge of overstaying his tourist visa. Since Garay had implicated him just...
...member of the country's legislature, D'Aubuisson cannot be prosecuted. A report by Salvadoran Attorney General Roberto Giron Flores has concluded, however, that Garay's testimony is sufficient to label the politician the "intellectual author" of the crime. Last week El Salvador's Justice Ministry began taking formal steps to convince the National Assembly that it should strip D'Aubuisson of his immunity so that he can be charged. Duarte's Christian Democratic Party has a clear majority in the legislature, 33 seats, compared with the 13 of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Duarte, who defeated...