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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 15 June 2017
EL SALVADOR: Judiciary moves on seminal case
Justice might finally be served in perhaps the most notorious case from El Salvador’s 12-year civil war: the assassination of the globally renowned archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez while delivering mass on 24 March 1980 at a hospital in San Salvador. On 18 May, Judge Rigoberto Chicas ordered public prosecutors to re-open the case into Romero’s slaying. The legal action was made possible by the decision by the constitutional chamber of El Salvador’s supreme court to annul the 1993 amnesty law shielding those culpable of human rights violations committed during the civil war. With impeccable timing, Pope Francis duly revealed that Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chávez, a close friend of Romero’s, would become El Salvador’s very first cardinal.
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