Ex-Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano is convicted by a criminal court in Madrid, and sentenced to 133 years in prison for his involvement in the murder of five Jesuit priests at the Central American University in San Salvador (UCA). The murders of one other Jesuit priest, the housekeeper and her daughter were not included in the charges because...
On 16 November 1989 six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 15-year old daughter were shot dead at their home in San Salvador by army soldiers. Five of the six priests were Spanish citizens.Ex-Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano is on trial in Madrid, accused of involvement in the murder.The hearings took place before the Audiencia Nacional, a division...
Book review
The Violence of Democracy - Political Life in Postwar El Salvador
By: Ainhoa Montoya
Published: 2018, Palgrave Macmillan, 303 pp, £17.99 paperback, £13.99 e-book. You can order a copy here.
Reviewed by: Mogs Russell
This article was originally published on the the author's own website. You can see the original here.
El Salvador ranked 142nd out of 163 countries for Societal Safety and Security in the 2019 Global Peace Index. Nayib Bukele coincidentally became president the same month the report was published. He claimed his victory would...
Between the 24 and 27 April 2020, 76 gang-related murders were reported in El Salvador - a significant hike from the 65 murders which took place across the country in the previous month. As a reaction to the bloodiest few days that El Salvador had seen for a while, President Nayib...
By John Washington. Originally published on April 18, 2020 under the title 'We Need to Reverse the Damage Trump Has Done in Latin America. Biden’s Plans Don’t Cut It'. You can read the original here.
Republished with kind permission from The Intercept , an award-winning nonprofit news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable...
LAB was present at Wales’ own Latin America Festival, called El Sueño Existe, held in Machynlleth every other year since 2001. We had a lively session on our latest books, Amazon Besieged and Voices of Latin America; LAB author Louise Morris took part in the discussion workshop on Reproductive Rights in Latin...
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
31 July 2019
Migration
and Displacement at crisis point
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page provides a daily stream of summaries and links to articles published elsewhere. In this and future newsletters we will mention some of these, with the...
This article was prepared for Christian Aid by Nathalie Mercier (Guatemala), Maria Useche (Colombia), Tania Grande (El Salvador) and Javier SanVicente (Honduras)
Main image: migrant child detained at the US border. Source: Guardian podcast: 'What is happening to migrant children at the US border'
A moving short photo-video from Francisco Elías Prada and Ángela Rodríguez Torres of LAB partner Ojos Ilegales, Venezuela. The photos convey haunting images of migrants from Central America as they cross Mexico in a desperate attempt to reach the USA.
The translation of the text is:
“Go back to your countries....