El Salvadors Oscar Romero

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El Salvadors Oscar Romero

• By Mary Ohland

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Introduction

• Statistics
• History of El Salvador
• Politics - 1932
• Oscar Romeros Role
• Torture
• Sister Charlottes Interview

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Map of El Salvador
http//www.tbwt.com/profiles/elsalva.htm
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El Salvador Politics

• Since 1932 under military dictatorship
• Farabundo Marti took power in a revolution
• 14 Salvadoran families formed an oligarchy
• FMLM (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front)
  Peoples army - Marxist

• Roman Catholic Church with a strong movement by
  the poor to overcome injustice and oppression
• No measures have ever been taken to threaten the
  elite dominated system by the government in power
  For example agrarian reform

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Archbishop Oscar Romero
http//www.sal.gbm.net/romero/
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Romero and His People
httpwww.frif.com/cat97/p-s/remember.html
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Romero

• 1917 Born in San Miguel.
• 1977 Became Archbishop.
• 1977 Friend, Rutilio Grande was murdered.
• 1980 Died.

http//fprespa.org/romero.html
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Torture

• Electric shock
• Hooding (the capucha)
• Hanging by feet, hands, or thumbs
• Rape
• Beatings
• Denial of food or sleep
• Drugging
• Being forced to remain in ones
• own excrement for hours
• Fake executions

http//www.thedagger.com/archive/elsal/elsal2a.htm
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Sister Charlottes Way of Life

• Madres Carlotta
• Franciscan Nun
• Went to El Salvador
• in 1962 age 26
• Worked there for
• 19 years
• Worked with the
• poor in the coffee
• finkas

http//dghonline.org/bmpl/bambhouse.jpg
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Sister Charlottes Interview

• Military death squads
• On her way out of the country she was stopped
  by the military her bible was in her suitcase
  if they found it, she was dead they asked her
  to open her suitcase.

http//www.thedagger.com/archive/elsal/elsal2a.htm
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Cortadores de cana
http//www.sv/svalbum.html
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San Salvadore Marketplace
http//www.geocities.com/vsuvius/pagenaae.html
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El Volcan de San Vicente
http//www.sv/svalbum.html
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San Salvador desde el aire
http//www.sv/svalbum.html
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Sister Charlotte