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U.S. Ambassador Robert White Dies, Criticized Salvadoran Death Squads

HeadlineJan 16, 2015

The former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White, has died at the age of 88. In 1981, he was fired after he refused to cover up the Salvadoran military’s responsibility for the murders of four American women who were Maryknoll church workers. White was there when the women’s bodies were dug up. He was quoted as saying, “This time the bastards won’t get away with it.”

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