Recorded September 29, 2004
Below is the original description of the event.
No one has been held accountable for the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, an outspoken critic of human rights abuses in El Salvador, until now. In August 2004, a California judge ordered Alvaro Saravia to pay $10 million in damages for arranging the assassination on behalf of Roberto D’Aubuisson, founder of the ARENA party which still governs El Salvador. The judgment has prompted calls for the Salvadoran government to renew its investigation into the assassination and served as an example of how U. S. courts can be used as a means of combating impunity.
Russell Cohen, of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, and Matt Eisenbrandt, of the Center for Justice & Accountability, are two of the attorneys who brought the case against Romero’s killers.