May 8, 1944 - Roberto d'Aubuisson
His career bridged official military structures and clandestine violence in ways that proved especially difficult to confront or prosecute during El Salvador's civil war years. As a death squad organizer and political architect of the ARENA party, he helped shape both the extrajudicial killing apparatus and the formal right-wing opposition in a single country simultaneously. The UN Truth Commission's finding that he ordered the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero — shot dead while celebrating Mass — remains the act most associated with his name.
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Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta (dohb-wee-SOHN; 23 August 1943 – 20 February 1992) was a Salvadoran military officer, neo-fascist politician, and death squad leader. In 1981, he co-founded and became the first leader of the far-right Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and served as president of the Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1983. He was a presidential candidate for 1984 presidential election, losing in the second round to José Napoleón Duarte, the former president of the Revolutionary Government Junta.
After ARENA's loss in the 1985 legislative elections, D'Aubuisson stepped down in favor of Alfredo Cristiani and was designated as the party's honorary president for life. D'Aubuisson was named by the United Nations' Truth Commission for El Salvador as having ordered the assassination of Óscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador in 1980.
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