Death Comes for the Archbishop | The New York Review of Books

Death Comes for the Archbishop | The New York Review of Books
This past March marked the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of the Catholic Archbishop of El Salvador by a right-wing death squad, an act that sent campesinos into the mountains to join the guerrillas and brought the simmering civil war to a boiling point.

Thanks to the funding of the military by US President Ronald Reagan to the tune of $6 billion-- a huge amount in a country the size of Vermont; over a million dollars a day-- the conflict would last for over a decade and claim the lives of 70,000 Salvadorenos.