René Emilio Ponce

Deceased Person

1947 – 2011

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Who was René Emilio Ponce?

René Emilio Ponce was a senior military officer in the Salvadoran Army during the nation's civil war, and minister of defense from 1990 to 1993. As head of the army’s joint chiefs of staff he was linked to the killing of six Jesuit priests in 1989, known as the murdered scholars of UCA. Ponce died on May 2, 2011 at a military hospital in San Salvador.

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Born
1947
Sensuntepeque
Died
May 2, 2011
San Salvador

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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