Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
9 El Salvador that were covering the period of time of the
10 assassination.
11 Q. What kinds of periodicals?
12 A. There are a number of -- well, there were at that time
13 more newspapers than there are now. There is a newspaper
14 which is a -- considered an extremely conservative source in
15 El Salvador, as newspapers have different editorial policies,
16 El Diario de Hoy, it's called. And that is a newspaper which
17 was published during this entire period and is closely
18 affiliated with the ARENA Party. I reviewed that one.
19 There are other periodicals that existed at the time
20 and do not exist now that I have in my personal collections
21 that cover these.
22 I reviewed the journals and updates of the
23 Archdiocese of El Salvador.
24 I have reviewed the homilies of Archbishop Romero
25 which acted, for my purposes, not as a religious statement,
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1 but as an information bulletin. He was considered one of the
2 most important sources for what was actually happening, who
3 was dying, where they were dying, how many people were dying,
4 et cetera. So I have reviewed those.
5 I have reviewed something called the Central American
6 NewsPak, which was published extensively over the time. I
7 have reviewed -- what was called the Latin American Weekly
8 Report that was published at that time and it now comes out
9 under a different name, but I reviewed it over that period of
10 time.
11 I reviewed the -- there is an excellent, and
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