CISPES event to confront US repression in el salvador (3/23)

After the film, we will discuss the implications of a new US government strategy to move away from infamous, US-based military training at the SOA into a US State Department academy (called the ILEA) based in San Salvador designed to train police recruits, judges, and prosecutors from throughout Latin America in methods of surveillance, criminalization of poverty and protest, and an expansion of the prison-industrial complex.

Friday, March 23rd @Station 40 (16th and Mission) in San Francisco 7pm

the eve of the 27th anniversary of Monsignor Romero's assassination.

r.s.v.p. will help us greatly. Hope you'll come!

El Mozote Survivor Dies

Last week, Rufina Amaya, the lone survivor of the 1981 massacre at El Mozote, died in San Miguel at the age of 64. When soldiers from the Salvadoran Army – who were trained at the School of the Americas – attacked the small village of El Mozote in eastern El Salvador more than two decades ago Amaya was the only person to escape alive. Later her testimony helped confirm the assassination of more than 1000 people in perhaps the most brutal twentieth century massacre in Latin America. She returned to El Salvador from a refugee camp in Honduras in 1990. For more information see: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/world/americas/09amaya.html. Rufina Amaya presente!

for a longer, well-researched piece on the US government's duplicitous role in the el mazote massacre, cover up, and eventual exposure...

http://www.markdanner.com/newyorker/120693_The_Massacre.htm