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03-25-2010, 03:21 AM | #1 |
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"In every house they were listening to his homily. Ordinary people like workers, but also the authorities - the military, the president and members of parliament," says Carlos Ayala, a journalist who at the time was studying to become a priest.
In a country with almost no free press, Mr Ayala says, the broadcasts were "like a place to find out what was really going on." BBC News - El Salvador marks Archbishop Oscar Romero's murder |
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03-26-2010, 05:42 PM | #2 |
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Not related at all, but your article triggered a memory.
This picture: Aid from a Padre Iconic Photos Wasn't born yet when that coup d'etat happened, but that picture is part of the collective unconcious of most Venezuelans, it won the Pullitzer prize. |
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03-26-2010, 09:31 PM | #3 |
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03-26-2010, 09:32 PM | #4 |
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Not related at all, but your article triggered a memory. |
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03-26-2010, 09:39 PM | #5 |
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A true tragedy...I saw the place where he was shot when I was in El Salvador 10 years ago during my study abroad program...sad. Was also the anny of the Jesuits killed at UCA not that long ago: Twenty Years After the Murder of Jesuit Priests in El Salvador | American University Washington D.C..
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03-27-2010, 01:18 AM | #6 |
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Not related at all, but your article triggered a memory. |
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