Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, who helped negotiate an end to Guatemala's bloody three-decade civil war, has died at the age 80. Local church officials say Quezada passed away Monday at a hospital in Guatemala City from an intestinal disorder. Quezada was a bishop when he was named head of the National Reconciliation Commission in 1987. His work on the commission laid the groundwork for the 1996 peace accord between the government and the leftist guerilla movement, ending ...
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