The Audacious Plot to Kill a Colonel
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Colonel Domingo Monterrosa was one of El Salvador's most successful and ruthless military commanders in the fight against leftist rebels. But in October 1984 the rebels carried out an audacious plan to kill him. Mike Lanchin has spoken to one former rebel and a war correspondent about the man and the plot.
(Photo: Colonel Domingo Monterrosa (R), speaking with one of his company commanders, 1983. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
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| 0:04.7 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.4 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over |
| 1:11.1 | at BBC Sounds. |
| 1:12.2 | Hello and welcome to the witness podcast history as told by the people who were there. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Mike Lanchin. |
| 1:18.0 | And today we're going back to 1984 and the death in El Salvador of one of the Army's most ruthless |
| 1:25.4 | and successful commanders in its fight against Marxist rebels. I've been |
| 1:30.3 | hearing about Colonel Domingo Monte Rosa and the plot that killed him. |
| 1:39.4 | 1984, the fourth year of El Salvador's bloody civil war and the US backed army fights to |
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