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As he strides into the room and sits down in a plush chair across a small table from me, it quickly becomes apparent that my interlocutor, a prominent defector from North Korea, spent a great deal of time in the military. Despite his ready smile and slightly mischievous sense of humor, Mr. |
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Esther Chavez vividly remembers the day in 1980 when a voice through a university loudspeaker delivered the news: San Salvador's Catholic Archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, had been fatally shot. “Everyone went crazy,” said Chavez, a New Jersey-based community activist who left El Salvador decades ago. |
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That was in San Salvador, the capital of a Central American country in the grip of a terrifying civil war in 1980, a few days after the archbishop was shot dead as he said mass. Thirty-eight years on, the younger Romero will on Sunday find himself in another crowded plaza -- St Peter's Square in the.... |
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SAN SALVADOR: What Gaspar Romero remembers most about his brother's funeral was the thump of explosions in a crowded plaza, the rattle of gunfire, the screams of the crowd - and that in the midst of it all, Archbishop Oscar Romero was buried "in a rush. |
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© Reuters Rights activists and friends of Jamal Khashoggi hold his pictures during a protest outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia has found itself further isolated over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi after the business world turned its back on a high-profile investment.... |
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What Gaspar Romero remembers most about his brother's funeral was the thump of explosions in a crowded plaza, the rattle of gunfire, the screams of the crowd -- and that in the midst of it all, Archbishop Oscar Romero was buried "in a rush." That was in San Salvador, the capital of a Central.... |
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What Gaspar Romero remembers most about his brother's funeral was the thump of explosions in a crowded plaza, the rattle of gunfire, the screams of the crowd -- and that in the midst of it all, Archbishop Oscar Romero was buried "in a rush." That was in San Salvador, the capital of a Central.... |
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His brother's elevation to sainthood "is a gift from God to the Salvadoran people, who are suffering from so much crime and social violence." The younger Romero had to get a loan to travel to Rome with seven family members to witness Sunday's ceremony which will be presided over by Pope Francis. |
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