Today, the country has one of the world's highest homicide rates...

Archbishop Romero

This was the first picture I took in El Salvador - it's a banner that is seen as soon as you exit the airport. I didn't know what compelled me to take the picture. I hadn't had the chance to look at it let alone try to translate the words. But, each day I like to google "El Salvador news" and someone else's blog came up posting an article in the Washington Post about a former military captain, Alvara Saravia who has decided to provide details after all these years.

I didn't realize that Scott and I arrived her just a week after the anniversary of Archbishop Romero's assassination which was the beginning of El Salvador's 15 year civil war. Jackie gave us a briefing on the history before we left about the conservative party and the leftist guerillas...

...but gotta go to the hospital. Click on the link to read the very interesting article!