Quesera – El Salvador’s forgotten massacre
El Salvador's civil war featured a number of brutal massacres by the army, especially the one at El Mozote in Morazán. Much less well-known is the butchery of peasants and children at Quesera in Usulután, on the River Lempa, carried out by the Army's US-trained Atlacatl Batallion.
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Film by Judy Jackson, 2019
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More than 50 development and human rights institutions in Bolivia have come together to appeal for a peaceful solution as the country is plunged...
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El Salvador: Demons in black, demons in white
This article was originally published on the the author's own website. You can see the original here.
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Young women have been particular targets of police violence during the national strike and subsequent protests in Colombia this month. What are the charges and how have they been met?