Contemporary speech topic?

On March 24, 1980 Catholic Archbishop from El Salvador was assassinated.

This is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"As archbishop, he witnessed numerous violations of human rights and began a ministry speaking out on behalf of the poor and victims of the country's civil war. Chosen to be archbishop for his conservatism, once in office his conscience led him to embrace a non-violent form of liberation theology, putting him in the line of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Like them, he was martyred for his non-violent advocacy. In 1980, he was assassinated by gunshot while consecrating the Eucharist during mass. His death provoked international outcry for human rights reform in El Salvador.

"In 1979, the Revolutionary Government Junta came to power amidst a wave of human rights abuses from paramilitary right-wing groups and from the government. Romero spoke out against U.S. military aid to the new government and wrote to President Jimmy Carter in February 1980, warning that increased military aid would "undoubtedly sharpen the injustice and the repression inflicted on the organized people, whose struggle has often been for their most basic human rights". Carter, concerned that El Salvador would become "another Nicaragua", ignored Romero's pleas."

The interesting thing about it is that the people who assassinated him were trained at the School of the Americas.

It would be very interesting for you as well as whoever is listening to your presentation to find out who else was trained at the School of the Americas as well as who they have posted in their Hall of Fame.

For example:

Gen Rafael Samudio Molina. 1988, SOA Hall of Fame; 1970, Guest Instructor. Oversaw the 1985 Colombian Army massacre at the Palace of Justice following an attempt by the M-19 guerrilla group to take it over. The Army under his command set the building ablaze, resulting in the horrifying deaths of many of the hostages. Other hostages were killed in Army crossfire, or, as some suspect, direct assassination. Even the hostages who lived through this ordeal were not safe; some were killed before exiting the palace and others were arrested and disappeared immediately upon leaving the building. Taped conversations between Samudio Molina and his commanders in the building establish that he used the situation to eliminate individuals, including Supreme Court justices, who were not staunch enough allies of the Colombian army.)

The corruption runs deep.