Word: weres
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"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...
"However, the university usually had sources that were in the field or on the parish level--in the community health clinics, together with the Green Cross [the Salvadoran equivalent of the Red Cross]. But it was always later proven that the figures reported by the UCA were always accurate," says...
"La Boletin was doing economic analyses showing the guerrillas were succeeding with their strategy of destroying the economic infrastructure of the country," says Mullaney. "This put UCA, by telling the truth, at odds with people from the international banking community. The military was upset because it [contradicted] the efforts they...
These factors have fueled the widely-held beliefs that the military or right-wing death squads were responsible for the priests' assassinations.
"The new authorities of the university have publicly announced their profound sense of loss for those who were killed," says Werner Romero, a professor of philosophy at UCA. "However, the university authorities state that the UCA will continue to hold true to the same ideological stance of those killed. The...