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DESCRIPTION:SALVADORAN COMMUNITY and LEADERS, U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HOLD PRESS 
 CONFERENCE TO CONDEMN ESCALATING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN EL SALVADOR; 
 \nDEATH THAT HAS RESULTED FROM ATTACKS\n\nJoin us on Thursday, November 
 29th from @ 11am\nSalvadoran Consulate (Polk & Golden Gate) in San 
 Francisco\n\nPolice and military have invaded and occupied a small 
 community in El Salvador called Cutumaya Camones in the department of Santa 
 Ana. A four-month long struggle by the community to prevent the illegal 
 establishment of a waste treatment plant -- which would poison the 
 community's water supply -- has been met with increasingly violent attacks 
 by the Salvadoran military and National Civilian Police.\n\nOn November 22, 
 government helicopters sprayed tear gas on peaceful demonstrators in the 
 State of Santa Ana, canton of Cutumay Camones, causing the death of a 
 14-year-old boy who was overwhelmed by the gas. The community, in their 
 continuous resistance to the construction of a garbage dump, blocked the 
 entrance of the construction site. Orlando Mena, Santa Ana's mayor, joined 
 with Police Director Rodrigo Avila in sending more than 300 riot police to 
 "dissolve the protest", attacking the community with tear gas fired from 
 surrounding helicopters.\n\nRepression and violence against unarmed 
 civilian populations has escalated at an alarming rate in various parts of 
 El Salvador. The brutal attacks in Cutumay Camones come in the context of 
 such attacks on Salvadoran citizens in various parts of the country 
 including Suchitoto where mass arrests took place against people protesting 
 water privatization.\n\nOn Thursday, November 29th, Salvadoran President 
 Antonio Saca will be in Washington DC to meet with Bush and receive a medal 
 of honor for "promoting freedom and democracy" in Latin America. With 
 parallel popularity ratings of about 36%, the two presidents intend to 
 showcase their new partnership in training fear, brutality, fraud, and 
 impunity from a US-sponsored regional police training academy in El 
 Salvador (the ILEA).\n\nThe "Suchitoto 13" are still facing charges of 
 "terrorism" for blockading a road to stop the president's announcement of 
 his national plan to sell off El Salvador's water.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/27/18463937.php
SUMMARY:Press Conference to Denounce Attacks in El Salvador
LOCATION:Salvadoran Consulate (Polk & Golden Gate)\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/27/18463937.php
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