Wells of Hope also is building homes for those in the community.

Mr. LeBarón, the family's spokesperson, said he hopes he can channel the grief and anger over the killings into a broad social movement. “We want to unite the whole country. We want a social movement, not a political one,” he said.

Blessed Miller was beatified Dec. 7 in Huehuetenango, where he was remembered as a martyr for education.

El Salvador may have signed peace accords in 1992, he said, but there's a lot of hurt that remains because justice has been elusive.

The story of “La Virgen del Tepeyac” is about the birth of a people.

Was Mr. Morales’s departure from La Paz the result of a coup? Or was the president’s removal the result of a more or less defensible process?