Rafael Palacios was a Roman Catholic priest in
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
who was assassinated on 20 June 1979 in
Suchitoto
Suchitoto is a municipality in the Department of Cuscatlán, El Salvador that has seen continuous human habitation long before Spanish colonization. Within its municipal territory, Suchitoto holds the site of the original founding of the Villa ...
. He served under Archbishop
Óscar Romero. His murder was characterized by Romero as part of a systematic persecution of the Catholic Church and oppression against efforts to reform a military dictatorship there to guarantee human rights for the poor masses.
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20th-century Salvadoran Roman Catholic priests
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1979 crimes in El Salvador
1979 murders in North America
1970s murders in El Salvador
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