of a blowtorch in interrogation sessions. In 1986, ex-U.S. ambassador Robert White reported to the United States Congress that "there was sufficient evidence" to convict D'Aubuisson of planning and ordering Archbishop Romero's assassination, describing D'Aubuisson as a pathological killer, as early as his 1984 Salvadoran presidential run. In April 2010, Alvaro Saravia, a former army captain who had admitted taking part in Romero's murder, testified in an interview with the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro that D'Aubuisson had given the order to proceed with the killing of the archbishop. Additionally, the report of the U.N. truth commission in El Salvador following the Salvadoran Civil War found that D'Aubuisson was arrested on a farm following the assassination of the archbishop, along with weapons and documents tied to the assassination. Sons In February 2007, D'Aubuisson's son Eduardo, along with two ARENA politicians and their driver, were killed in Guatemala. Investigators suggested that the murders may have been connected to drug-trafficking groups. In March 2015, D’Aubuisson’s surviving son, Roberto D’Aubuisson Jr., was elected mayor of Santa Tecla, a neighboring municipality of the capital San Salvador. In popular culture Tony Plana was cast as Maj. Maximiliano "Max" Casanova in the movie Salvador by Oliver Stone, a thinly disguised depiction of D'Aubuisson. In the 1989 film Romero, D'Aubuisson was depicted as Lt. Columa and played by Eddie Velez. References External links "Report of the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador" (1993) Democracy Among the Ruins: Citizens struggle with a turbulent campaign (Mario Vargas Llosa's report on the 1984 presidential campaign), TIME, 26 March 1984 (retrieved 6 November 2006). Salvadoran Far-Right Leader Ill With Cancer, by Shirley Christian, The New York Times, 22 July 1991 (retrieved 6 November 2006). "US role in Salvador's brutal war", BBC World Service, 24 March 2002. 1944 births 1992 deaths Counterinsurgency theorists Deaths from cancer in El Salvador Deaths from esophageal cancer Nationalist Republican Alliance politicians Presidents of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador People from La Libertad Department (El Salvador) People of the Salvadoran Civil War Salvadoran people of French descent Fu Hsing Kang College alumni Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School alumni Antisemitism in North America Far-right politics in North America Neo-fascist politicians Fascism in El Salvador 20th-century Salvadoran politicians