· High Crimes: Directed by Carl Franklin. With Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott. A successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering 9 villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as US soldier under a different name. She defends him in military court and investigates. Framed?
 · On March 24, 1980, El Salvador's famed Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was canonized as a Catholic saint last year, was assassinated at the altar while celebrating Mass at a hospital chapel in San ...
 · Francia had come to Chalchuapa, a small town in western El Salvador, in search of her son, Luis Fernando, who disappeared seven years ago at the age of 16.“I just want to find at least his bones ...
 · But as well as the thousands of deaths now remembered only by their families, El Salvador’s war had well-known religious martyrs. The most celebrated is, of course, Archbishop Oscar Romero, shot on 24 March 1980 while leading the mass in a hospital chapel in San Salvador. The day before, he had called on soldiers in the army to stop ...
On March 24, 1980, El Salvador's famed Archbishop Ă“scar Romero, who was canonized as a Catholic saint last year, was assassinated at the altar while celebrating Mass at a hospital chapel in San Salvador.
Danny Hajek/NPR. On Nov. 16, 1989, a housekeeper named LucĂa Cerna was startled awake by a violent commotion outside her window. "I heard shooting, shooting at lamps, and walls, and windows," Cerna writes in her memoir, La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs. "I heard doors kicked, and things being thrown.".
Outside the walls of the Central American University, the Salvadoran army was locked in intense fighting against leftist guerrilla forces from the Farabundo MartĂ National Liberation Front, or FMLN.
The priests publicly opposed U.S. support of the Salvadoran armed forces, and pleaded for peaceful dialogue between the right and the left. They polled poor citizens and kept detailed records of refugees fleeing the country. "These were defenseless populations that were killed mercilessly," Pike says.
She fled the country under the protection of the Jesuits and European diplomats, and arrived at a Radisson Hotel in Miami, Fla., where the FBI and a Salvadoran colonel questioned her.
The funeral procession for the six Jesuit priests in San Salvador, El Salvador on Nov. 19, 1989.
Yet the right wing accused the Jesuits of being communists, and EllacurĂa was called "the brains behind the guerrillas."
But questions have been raised over whether that reduction was the result of the government’s hardline security push or in fact a secret deal cut with Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), El Salvador’s largest criminal gang.
The case has sent shock waves through El Salvador and cast a spotlight on the femicide emergency raging across Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico, where 4,000 women were killed in 2019 alone.
The mass grave at No 11 Estévez Street was discovered on the night of 7 May after neighbours called police having heard the cries of a young woman. By the time police arrived more than an hour later she and her mother were dead – reportedly bludgeoned to death with an iron tube by Osorio, who confessed to the crimes.
Carranza said she had been shown of a photo album of personal effects found in the house in case they belonged to her daughter, Arely Aracely Antillón. “I’ve seen clothes, shoes, jewellery,” said the woman who remembered perfectly what her child was wearing when she disappeared. “But there’s nothing of hers in there, nothing at all.”
Carranza, who was cradling a portrait of the child she had not seen for six years, replied: “Perhaps.”
El Salvador has long been considered one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, a reality that forces many to flee north to seek shelter in the United States. Last year, 541 women disappeared in the country with a population of 6.7 million, according to Ormusa (the Organisation of Salvadorian Women for Peace).
Note: All descriptions of events are taken from the Truth Commission's report and the summary of accusations admitted by the Spanish court against the members of the Salvadoran military who were sentenced for the crime.
Roses' Garden at UCA, El Salvador. The place where : Ignacio EllacurĂa, Ignacio MartĂn-BarĂł, Segundo Montes, Juan RamĂłn Moreno, Amando LĂłpez, JoaquĂn LĂłpez y LĂłpez, Elba Ramos y Celina Ramos, were killed at november 16th 1989
The murders attracted international attention and increased international pressure for a cease-fire. It is recognized as a turning point that led toward a negotiated settlement to the war.
Nine members of the Salvadoran military were put on trial. Only Colonel Guillermo Benavides and Lieutenant Yusshy René Mendoza were convicted. The others were either absolved or found guilty on lesser charges. Benavides and Mendoza were sentenced to thirty years in prison.
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On the 20th anniversary of the massacre, President Mauricio Funes awarded the Order of JosĂ© MatĂas Delgado, Grand Cross with Gold Star, El Salvador's highest civilian award, to the six murdered priests. Funes knew them personally, considered some of them friends, and credited their role in his professional and personal development.
The murders have inspired activism in the United States against U.S. imperialism from intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky. They have also been referenced in the arts, such as Act I of the Video Read-Opera "Marisette's Voice."
He was a tax lawyer, who was disbarred after his did something wrong. Julio Pena: Theo's friend from school. He had been living in a homeless shelter along with family, from El Salvador. Theo helped him with his English and Algebra occasionally.
Judge Gantry: A highly respected judge in Strattenburg, and was the judge of the Duffy murder trial. He quite frankly adored Theo, and will always do anything for him. Peter Duffy: Wealthy man who lived in Waverly Creek. He was the husband of Myra Duffy, and suspected of killing her.
Most likely, she was going to stay with her mother, even though she didn't want to live with anyone in her family. Ike Boone: Theo's uncle. Ike was a former lawyer who had started the Boone & Boone Firm. He was a tax lawyer, who was disbarred after his did something wrong. Julio Pena: Theo's friend from school.
His cousin was a witness in the murder trial that was going on, so he asked Theo for help and advice of what to do. Bobby Escobar: Julio's cousin. Bobby worked at the Waverly Creek golf course, where he witnessed a man go into the house of Mr. and Mrs. Duffy, and coming back out 10 minutes later.
He was considered a slob at the Boone & Boone firm because of his untidiness in his office. April Finnemore: Theo's best friend. April had gone through some rough times. Both parents filed for a divorce, and she had to choose which one she was going to live with.
Claudia Lars was a Salvadoran poet best remembered for her work Sonnets of Michael, which earned her second place in the Floral Games in Guatemala in 1941. Some of her best-known works include Estrellas en el Pozo, Romances de Norte y Sur, and Sobre el Angel y el Hombre.
Born in El Salvador, Alicia Nash later moved to the U.S., where she became one of the first women to join MIT as a student. The physicist met her husband, renowned mathematician John Nash at MIT. Both Alicia and John were killed in car crash while returning home from Norway.
1. Harrison Ford , The Fugitive. Defense: “I didn’t kill my wife!”. There’s a very important rule when it comes to Harrison Ford movies: If it looks like he killed an innocent person (especially his wife), he did not kill that innocent person (especially his wife).
The Fugitive, the suspenseful masterpiece adapted from the 1963 TV show, is the best example of that rule. Ford stars as Richard Kimble, a physician who has been framed for the brutal murder of his wife. She actually dies at the hand (s) of a one-armed man, killed as part of a pharmaceutical-company conspiracy.
Defense: “Something’s missing. What was that about a carousel?”#N#In this movie, released the same year as Dark Passage, Steven Kenet arrives home to find out his wife has been unfaithful, so he strangles her to death. Or so he remembers doing. He has a mental breakdown and lands in a psychiatric hospital with no clear memory of the attack. However, instead of resigning himself to a life behind the high wall (eh?), Kenet teams up with Dr. Ann Lorrison (Audrey Totter) to learn the truth. They do, but not before we’re sufficiently traumatized by the realities of the mental-health system in 1947.
Makes guys like me think maybe we got a chance in the world.”#N#For a late-1940s thriller, Dark Passage was surprisingly futuristic: Wrongfully convicted killer Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) escapes San Quentin in hopes of finding the true identity of his wife’s murderer — but instead of just hiding out in basement apartments à la Dr. Kimble, he gets a new face so as to search incognito. The disguise doesn’t work, and neither do his attempts to prove his innocence. But he and his new face end up in Paris with Lauren Bacall, so it’s all good anyway.
And that’s why she died, because of me.”#N#We’ll be able to debate this forever, but let’s just assume Andy Dufresne’s claims that he didn’t kill his wife and her lover are true. They seem pretty believable when delivered so convincingly to the patient, Oscar-nominated ears of Morgan Freeman, who plays fellow Shawshank State Prison inmate Red. Dufresne’s innocence, even if it’s all pretense, fuels his determination to escape prison via an elaborate, multi-decade plan. Let’s just … overlook his seeming willingness to accept that no one would ever find his wife’s true murderer.
Ă“scar Romero was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. Disturbed by a growing war between left-wing and right-wing forces, he spoke against social injustice, poverty, assassinations, and torture. He was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980.
José Napoleón Duarte was the president of El Salvador during the tumultuous years of the Salvadoran Civil War and had witnessed mass killings of civilians by the army. Though he was supported by the U.S., he failed to remove poverty from his country and ended up being ousted by ARENA.
Mauricio Funes is a Salvadoran politician who won the 2009 presidential election representing the Farabundo MartĂ National Liberation Front political party. He served as the 44th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014.
Born in El Salvador, Alicia Nash later moved to the U.S., where she became one of the first women to join MIT as a student. The physicist met her husband, renowned mathematician John Nash at MIT. Both Alicia and John were killed in car crash while returning home from Norway.
An illegitimate son of a Salvadoran nurse and an American businessman, poet Roque Dalton, best known for works such as El mar, Los testimonios, was also a famed leftist figure of the 20th century. He was eventually killed by people who didn’t agree with his political views.
Claudia Lars was a Salvadoran poet best remembered for her work Sonnets of Michael, which earned her second place in the Floral Games in Guatemala in 1941. Some of her best-known works include Estrellas en el Pozo, Romances de Norte y Sur, and Sobre el Angel y el Hombre.
Francisco Flores PĂ©rez was a Salvadoran politician and an important member of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). From 1999 to 2004, Flores served as the 42nd president of El Salvador. Flores became the first former president from El Salvador to be charged with a crime and tried on corruption charges.