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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 26 May 2017

El Salvador gets top papal recognition

El Salvador has its first cardinal. In the same week that a Salvadorean judge announced the re-opening of an investigation into the infamous assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero by a right-wing death squad in 1980, Pope Francis revealed that Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chávez, a close friend of Romero’s, would become a cardinal. The elevation of Rosa Chávez, 75, is a source of great pride in El Salvador, not least because neighbouring Honduras has a cardinal, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez, who has been deemed to be papabile. El Salvador’s President Salvador Sánchez Cerén tweeted that the pope’s announcement “fills us with immense happiness and gratitude”.

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