We currently think of “popular education” as an educational approach that has the purpose of awakening people’s minds, raising awareness and driving their organizational process. During the war, El Salvador had its own popular educators. Their main purpose was sharing with others the basic knowledge they already had. You can learn more about that and […]
(LEA LA NOTICIA COMPLETA AQUÍ) “You’re going to ask me about the El Mozote massacre, in Morazán, on december 1981”, said “Juan”, hidden behind a wooden screen and through a device that changed his voice. The two former soldiers declare under a pseudonym and their identities are only known by the prosecution and the […]
Como les comentamos antes, el pasado jueves se hizo el lanzamiento del libro “Memorias del Sumpul“. Les dejamos más imágenes del evento, así como un video para que compartan:
A while ago our network used to have 32 committees. This year we only have 16 left. Committees are aging and our model of solidarity is hard to explain to a wider audience when our country is no longer “in poverty” or when it suddenly becomes a “third safe country” and a “less dangerous place” […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday the association Martirs of Sumpul presented a book in which they have gathered testimonies of survivors of the massacre that took place on may 13th and 14th of 1980. Ana Deysi Garcia, member of the team that created the book, shared with Efe, that “this kind of work is needed […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) A founding member of the embroidery cooperative of Arcatao shared how their work started: The embroidery workshop was born in 1988, in view of a need that we women had, as we were emerging from a cruel war, of much poverty. We didn’t even have to buy a pound (of) salt […]
(En español aquí) We invite you to learn about the “Unfinished sentences” project, its struggles and the learning process that took place while gathering all important knowledge of people in Arcatao who keep fighting to keep historical memory alive. The topic of the participants’ consent was something we were learning a lot about during […]
Every two months, SALVAIDE, The SHARE Foundation and Sister Cities meet with the sistering representatives of the five regions of CRIPDES and some CRIPDES board members. These are the sistering meetings. During these meetings, we talk about the current context, hear reports about the regions and share ideas or proposals. During one of these meetings, […]
Fabian Salvioli, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees recently visited El Salvador and asked to remove the name of Col. Jose Domingo Monterrosa from the Infantry Brigade in the department of San Miguel. According to the UN Truth Commision, Monterrosa was the commander of the Atlacatl Batallion that […]
(La versión en español aquí) Last year, on October 2nd, I sat down with Miguel Mejia from SALVAIDE. Then, we talked about april 19th, 1989, the day military forces raided the CRIPDES’ offices and captured him, then-president Isabel Hernandez and others. Our talk has been condensed for clarity. We were in the middle […]