Tag Archives: Archbishop Romero

April 27, 2012

CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Florida’s Foreign Policy and the eternal cynicism of the sunshine mind

In Florida, relations with Cuba are serious business.  Ask Miami Marlin’s manager Ozzie Guillen, publicly shamed and forced to apologize to save his job for talking about Fidel Castro’s longevity. Or worse, ask Airline Brokers Company, a Coral Gables-based travel provider that recently helped fly 340 pilgrims to Cuba for… read more »

April 22, 2012

Salvadorans hope dedication of square spurs more recognition

Sam Quinones, LA Times- Under cloudless skies and a radiant sun, a couple of hundred Salvadorans dressed in white gathered early Saturday to name an intersection near downtown Los Angeles in honor of Msgr. Oscar A. Romero, a Catholic archbishop who was slain in 1980 during El Salvador’s civil war… read more »

January 9, 2012

Destruction of Cathedral Facade in El Salvador Sparks Anger

Tracy López, Fox News Latino – Outside the historic Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, workers sweep up broken hand-painted tiles which lay in a dusty pile. The tiles are scooped into large plastic buckets and dumped into another pile on the bed of a truck. These tiles were once part… read more »

September 30, 2011

El Salvador Update – September 2011

In his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on September 24th, President Mauricio Funes denounced the “terrorism” and the “bloodiest war” inflicted on El Salvador and the region by drug trafficking and organized crime.  He called on the United States to take the leadership in the battle… read more »

March 24, 2010

30 Years After Archbishop Romero’s Murder, It is Time for Truth

ReutersMarch 23, 2010 WASHINGTON — The Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA) joins Salvadorans and others around the world in commemorating the 30th anniversary of the murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. From modest beginnings,  Oscar Romero  became a transformative and much-loved voice for justice in a country plagued… read more »