Summary: In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SAL

Didion, Joan.

Summary: The author recounts her 1982 visit to El Salvador and describes the terror, fear and political repression that permeated the country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.84 DID

Summary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROM