Volume 54, Number 18 · November 22, 2007
The Death of the Good Bishop
By Aryeh Neier
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
by Francisco Goldman
Grove, 396 pp., $25.00
In April 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera, the seventy-five-year-old auxiliary bishop of Guatemala City, issued a report compiled, under his direction, by a Catholic human rights group that documented the cases of more than 52,000 civilian victims of Guatemala's civil war and, in most cases, named them. The report attributed most of the deaths to the Guatemalan army. Two days later the bishop was found beaten to death in the garage of his parish house.
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