Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Che Guevara? That's what you got?

No, Che was no social worker... Now Archbishop Romero on the other hand...

Romero – a conservative who later came to sympathise with the leftwing Liberation Theology movement – was shot through the heart by a sniper during mass at a hospital chapel on 24 March 1980, a day after he admonished the military and called on soldiers to cease killing innocent civilians in the country’s dirty war.

“In the name of God and this suffering population, whose cries reach to the heavens more tumultuous each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you, in the name of God, cease the repression,” he said in his final sermon.

At his funeral, the army opened fired on the more than 100,000 mourners, killing dozens.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/hundreds-of-thousands-to-attend-oscar-romero-beatification-in-el-salvador

I'll see your Che and raise you a Roberto D'Aubisson.. Hell, I'll throw in a Pinochet and a Somoza. And when you summon the intellectual courage, or maybe just the intellect, perhaps you can actually speak to the very real history I cite in discussing the Central American refugee issue.