Unidentified Salvadoran gunmen assassinated the young rightist...
Unidentified Salvadoran gunmen assassinated the young rightist mayor of the eastern town of San Jorge in the latest in a series of apparently political killings. Mayor Graciela Monico Palma, 25, was killed instantly when four intruders opened fire in her office. A member of the ultrarightist Arena party, she died a week after another rightist mayor, Domingo Aviles, 55, of Santa Elena, was assassinated just six miles away. That killing followed by three days the murder of the government’s chief corruption investigator, Pedro Rene Yanez, a member of President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s centrist Christian Democratic Party.
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