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Feb 2024
2h 12m

EPISODE 104: The Saint and the Death Squ...

Daniele Bolelli
About this episode
This is a story about what happened in El Salvador in the 1970s and 1980s, and the role that democratic as well as republican administrations played in this tale. As much as humanly possible, I’ll try to let the facts speak for themselves and not inject too much of my own commentary. 
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