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About the clandestine graves in El Salvador

(LEA EL ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ)   This is a translation of an Op Ed written by José María Tojeira, former dean of the Central American University (UCA):   The great massacres almost always required clandestine graves. Many of them were discovered after the wars that provoked such killings. This is how the Nazis acted […]

UCA EDITORIAL – Disappeared in El Salvador

(READ THE ORIGINAL IN SPANISH HERE)   The Central American University (UCA) recently published an editorial about the growing problem of missing people in El Salvador. Here’s our translation:   In El Salvador, the disappearance of people is daily news. Until August 31 of this year, 789 people are reported missing, an average of 3.3 […]

Orlando Montano’s trial resumes in Spain

(PUEDE LEER EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ)   Today in Spain the trial resumed against Orlando Montano, a former general of the Salvadoran army and for now the only accused as intellectual author of the massacre of six Jesuit priests and two collaborators, committed in 1989 at the Central American University (UCA). These are the witnesses who […]

UCA and other organizations resign from the Emergency fund created by Salvadoran Government

The Central American University (UCA) and four other institutions resigned from the Committee of the Emergency Fund, Recovery and Economic Reconstruction by COVID-19 set up by the Salvadoran Government. (X)   The National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP), the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of El Salvador; the Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development […]