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  • Obama visits tomb of slain Salvadoran archbishop

    03/22/2011 10:24:38 PM PDT · by quantim · 9 replies
    AP/WorldMag ^ | Mar 22, 11:54 PM EDT | JIM KUHNHENN and ANY CABRERA
    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- President Barack Obama stood, eyes closed, in a personal moment of silence before the tomb of slain Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, whose fight for the poor during El Salvador's bloody civil war made him a national hero - and an international figure in human rights. The visit Tuesday in the final hours of Obama's five-day swing through Latin America was a symbolic gesture that some called U.S. recognition of Romero's cause. Obama toured the national cathedral with Monsignor Jose Luis Escobar Alas, the current archbishop, and paid respects to a man ordered...