The assassination of Oscar Romero
In 1980, the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador was brutally assassinated while leading a mass at a chapel in El Salvador. He was an ardent advocate of human rights in his nation rife with violence and human rights violation which were supported by the government. His killers were believed to have been members of a death squad. A man named Alvaro Rafael Saravia was found guilty of being involved in the conspiracy to kill the priest, but the actual killers remained at large.
