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For regularly updated news and analysis in English, we also recommend Tim's El Salvador Blog. El Salvador Update: May Day, Scandals, Youth Organizing, and More! May 2, 2007
Immigrants in Washington, DC Fast for An End to Deportations April 30, 2007
Mega Projects for Mega Capital A Report by Voices on the Border on the construction of dams and highways, and the slow privatization of water, April 2007
(Watercolor illustration by Mary Lee Barker, Voices member.)
The Human Face of Immigration Issues Read Testimonies of Migrant Salvadoran Families: Poverty and Work
Violent Police Repression in El Salvador Read about violent police repression that's being called the worst human rights abuse since the peace accords. July 14, 2006
Update and analysis of March 12, 2006 elections in El Salvador.
...and other news from our partners in El Salvador. January 28, 2006
Former deputy defense minister of El Salvador found guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the war.
Massive Flooding in the Lower Lempa, Government Misuses Aid As thousands remain displaced from the fallout from Hurricane Stan, including floods, mudslides, and damage to homes and roads, the government is being accused by social organizations and rural communities, as well as the national press, of crassly using international aid money to reward political supporters in this election season.
A new feature-length film shows the Salvadoran civil war through the eyes of a child. Many who lived through the war call it the most realistic depiction of the horrors of war they've yet seen. Released in major markets October 14, 2005.
International Law Enforcement Academy in El Salvador Will the new Police Academy be an updated School of Assassins? Social movements in Latin America and the United States are mobilizing against this new arm of U.S. control in El Salvador.
CAFTA Passes in U.S. Congress
Resolution Honoring Churchwomen Passes U.S. Congress On the night of December 14, the House of Representatives unanimously approved H. Res. 458, honoring the lives and work of the four American churchwomen who were murdered in El Salvador in December 1980.
El Salvador Clears Way for CAFTA With the January 1, 2006 implementation date uncertain because participating countries had not yet made all the requisite changes, El Salvador took the lead in accomplishing this task. Sumpul River Massacre Remembered, by Jesse Stewart
from the Nation, June 2005
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Twenty-five years after the El Mozote massacre of which she was the sole survivor, Rufina Amaya passed away. After losing her family and everyone she knew, she spent the next quarter-century telling the story so it would be not forgotten. Read about Rufina in this 