Death foretold : the Jesuit murders in El Salvador /

The execution-style murders of six Jesuit priests and a cook and her daughter in their household in November 1989 by the Salvadorean military marked a major turning point in the 12-year-long civil war in El Salvador. Both national and international reactions to these murders gave momentum to the peace process, which culminated in the recent March 1994 nationwide elections in El Salvador. Doggett prepared this largely factual report, which summarizes the crime and evaluates its handling by the Salvadorean legal system, for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. In addition, she analyzes critically the role the US government played in the case and provides useful appendixes relevant to it. While the volume is factual, its perspective is never in doubt. The book belongs in all libraries that have significant Latin American collections and adds to the record a sound account of a pivotal event in the turbulent recent decades of Central American politics. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty.