Weekly Report - 04 December 2014 (WR-14-48)

The mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano, has excited controversy by revealing that a street in El Salvador’s capital will be renamed after Major Roberto d’Aubuisson on 19 February next year. Quijano belongs to the main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena), which was founded by D’Aubuisson in 1981. The timing of his decision to honour D’Aubuisson in this way is striking. El Salvador will hold legislative and municipal elections just nine days after the name-changing ceremony, which will also be barely a month before the 35th anniversary of the assassination of the archbishop of San Salvador, Óscar Romero. D’Aubuisson, who formed ultra-right death squads, was named as the intellectual author of Romero’s murder in a report published by the United Nations (UN) truth commission after the end of the civil war (1980-1992), but an amnesty law ensured it has never been investigated in El Salvador.

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