When it comes right down to it, the hands of the USA's political leadership are very dirty indeed.
Archbishop of San Salvador Arturo Rivera y Damas
views the bodies of the six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter,
murdered at the University of Central America in El Salvador
on November 16, 1989."Leave No Witnesses!"by Fr. Michael Czerny, SJ
The first hours of November 16th, ten years ago, the full moon shed all its milky light on what was happening behind the Jesuits residence on the campus of the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador.
The highest echelons of the military hierarchy had decided the day before that UCAs president Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ, was to be killed and that they would "leave no witnesses!" With Ellacuría, five other Jesuits and two women also died that night.
I knew them personally, all except Celina, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Julia Elba, the community cook. "Nacho" Martín-Baró and I both studied at the University of Chicago; I met Amando López for the first time in Nicaragua in 1978 and often thereafter; Segundo Montes was a valued colleague in the work for human rights and refugees; Juan Ramón Moreno, a theologian of great spirituality; the popular educator Joaquín López y López, affectionately known as "Lolo"; and Ellacuría whom I respected enormously as a moral and intellectual leader.
The legal investigation began immediately but dragged on for nearly two years. American Jesuits put sustained pressure on the U.S. government, which did everything to obfuscate the issue and to protect the Salvadoran army and government while at the same time certifying human rights and continuing to grant high levels of military assistance.
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