Word: wing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hollenbach, speaking at St. Paul's Rectory on 34 Mt. Auburn St., echoed the former Salvadoran right-wing slogan, "If a patriot, kill a priest...
Although their friends fiercely affirm that none of the priests were politicians, the nature of their academic studies and UCA's prominent efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the Salvadoran war made them highly political targets of the Salvadoran right wing...
...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...
These factors have fueled the widely-held beliefs that the military or right-wing death squads were responsible for the priests' assassinations...
...internal struggle between the military and the [rightist] Arena Party. This could very well have been a way for the right wing to show their rivals in the party 'Who's in charge,'" Cox says...