Amy Goodman
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Vatican Canonizes Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, Who Was Killed by a U.S.- backed Death Squad
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October 15, 2018
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Pope Francis has named Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a saint. Romero was a champion for the poor and oppressed who was murdered by a U.S.backed rightwing death squad in 1980 at the beginning of the brutal, U.S.backed military campaign in El Salvador. Wearing the bloodstained rope belt that Romero wore when he was assassinated, Pope Francis praised Romero for disregarding his own life “to be close to the poor and to his people.” We speak with Matt Eisenbrandt, a human rights lawyer and the author of “Assassination of a SaintThe Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice.” Eisenbrandt served on the trial team that brought the only court verdict ever reached for Romero’s murder.
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