| In San Salvador, the capitol of El Salvador, a colorful, dramatic mural symbolically depicts the country's war-torn history. During the decade of the 1980s, a civil war fought largely in the countryside destroyed the national economy and resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of government and rebel soldiers and civilians including Catholic nuns and clergy - the most visibly, Bishop Oscar Romero, a beloved "people's leader" who actively worked for peace in the country. This mural is located outside his former residence and the chapel where he was murdered in 1980. |
