One Year Anniversary of the Assassination of Anti-Mining Activist Marcelo Rivera

June 24th was the one year anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran anti-mining activist, Marcelo Rivera. In San Isidro, Cabañas, the murders of Rivera and fellow community leaders Dora Alicia Sorto Recinos and Ramiro Rivera – crimes which has so far gone unsolved and unpunished – were commemorated by nearly two hundred people with musical and dramatic performances and speeches by activists and religious leaders.

Click the link below to see a video from the commemoration of the deaths of these activists from the Voices on the Border website.

http://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/one-year-anniversary-of-marcelo-riveras-assassination/

 

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