he described human rights abuses perpetuated by the military and asked the Carter administration to reconsider supporting the junta government in El Salvador
n February 1980, Romero wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter, in which he described human rights abuses perpetuated by the military and asked the Carter administration to reconsider supporting the junta government in El Salvador
AFTER Archbishop Romero was assassinated in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, in March 1980 by a right-wing death squad because he refused to be silenced in condemning the murder and torture of the people by the country's regime as well as the poverty and injustices being inflicted on them.
