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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; El Salvador</title>
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		<title>Peace Corps Safety Measures: Making up for Past Mistakes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 21 2011, the U.S. Peace Corps released a statement declaring that it would be pulling out 158 active volunteers from Honduras in January 2012 as a result of the ongoing violence there perpetrated by organized criminal gangs. Furthermore, the Peace Corps intends to reevaluate the safety situation for volunteers serving in other Central American countries – Guatemala and El Salvador, and have canceled the upcoming 2012 training sessions that were to be held in the aforementioned countries. This security measure was not unprecedented in the past, since, according to the New York Times article, according to a Peace Corps spokesperson, Kristina Edmunson, speaking from her Washington D.C. office, said that “from time to time, the corps withdraws or restricts work in the 75 countries in which it has volunteers.” It has been reported that dozens of current Peace Corps volunteers have been injured after being caught in the line of fire amidst the violence that has plagued the Central American nations with the rise of illicit drug trafficking. The situations in Honduras and in El Salvador have struck a particularly ominous chord with the Peace Corps as they have been deemed the most violent countries in the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One-way Ticket or Circular Flow: Changing Stream of Remittances to Latin America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside houses held together by a collection of sticks, mud brick and plastic table cloths one can hear the hum of a stainless-steel refrigerator and the shrill buzz of a flickering thirty-inch color television set.  These appliances of modern convenience mix casually with poverty, a contrast almost obscenely commonplace throughout many parts of Latin America and especially Central America. Small towns in the campo, where unemployment seems to run close to  90 percent and the only males remaining are either below the age of sixteen or above the age of sixty, receive a steady stream of cash sent by former residents living more than a thousand miles away. Remittances from family members working in the U.S. constitute a significant portion of the GDP in many Latin American countries.  In Haiti, remittances compose a record 30 percent of GDP, followed by Honduras (25.6%), Guyana (24.5%), Jamaica (18.5%), and El Salvador (18.2%).   As a whole, Latin America receives USD 58.9 billion every year, dwarfing both U.S. FDI (USD 19.2 billion, 17% of total) and foreign aid (USD 448 million) to the region combined.  While remittances do not ultimately solve economic deficiencies in these countries, many families rely on them to survive.  These payments also help families send [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Squads Threaten Journalists in El Salvador</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An abridged version of the following publication was first featured on the DOHA Centre for Media Freedom website. In 2005, with the United States facing resilient resistance in Iraq, Newsweek reported that officials in the Pentagon were debating the use of the “Salvador Option,” referring to the US-supported death squads that terrorized El Salvador through the 1980s as part of the first ‘War on Terror.’[1] These groups were notoriously barbaric, using random violence, decapitations, torture and committing atrocities in order to spread terror.   Independent media outlets were targeted and essentially silenced in the early 1980s by intimidation, attacks, kidnappings and murder.   The violence and widespread repression were justified as part of a civil war against leftist groups that had taken up arms against the junta.  The result was more than a million refugees and as many as 70,000 people killed over the course of a decade. In an ominous echo of this dark period in El Salvador’s history, a radio station in the Cabañas region of the country has been receiving death threats from a self proclaimed ‘grupo de exterminio’ (death squad).  Radio Victoria, which is largely run by young people, is one of the many small stations that emerged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith Restored in El Salvador’s Institutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After almost two months of tension between Congress and the Corte Suprema de Justicia (CSJ), Congress finally repealed Decree 743 with a vote of 57-27. Passed on June 2, the Decree rendered the CSJ virtually ineffective because it mandated that the five judges must vote unanimously to pass a ruling. Motivation for such a motion arose from concerns surrounding rumors of the court abolishing the amnesty law of 1993, a measure which protected those who committed human rights abuses during the civil war in the early 1980s. El Salvador’s government maintains deep interests in the longevity of the amnesty law, since many government officials may find themselves subject to criminalization should it be declared unconstitutional. The leader of ARENA, Alfredo Cristiani, who was a major force pushing the success of the Decree, was accused of participating in the killing of six Jesuit priests, their house keeper and her daughter, and a planned murder as commander in chief of the armed forces during the conflict. Given the repeal of Decree 743, accusations against Cristiani and individuals in similar situations could turn into legal penalties if the amnesty law were to be declared unconstitutional by the CSJ. Military figures, El Salvador’s elite, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COHA Presents Dr. Francisco Acosta&#8217;s &#8220;Priests, Hookers, and Guns: Tales from Cuscatlán&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) is proud to announce the completion of the English edition of Dr. Francisco Acosta’s autobiography, Priests, Hookers, and Guns: Tales from Cuscatlán.   Acosta, who currently serves as a COHA Senior Research Fellow, is a prominent member of Washington’s metropolitan Latino community.  He has served as the President of CASA Maryland and took part in the negotiations in Washington that ultimately terminated the Salvadoran Civil War.  In addition to such activism within the United States, Acosta founded the Bishop Oscar Romero University in Chalatenango, El Salvador. Priests, Hookers, and Guns: Tales from Cuscatlán is a highly emotional and humorous account of Acosta’s life on El Salvador’s Guazapa Volcano.  This captivating series of vignettes catalogues more than three decades of Salvadoran history, ending with the outbreak of the Salvadoran Civil War in the early 1980s.  A delightful mix of historical analysis and personal anecdote, this compelling work truly captures the inspirational as well as the horrific moments in recent Salvadoran history. The Spanish edition of Priests, Hookers, and Guns: Tales from Cuscatlán will be published by the University of Central America in the fall of 2011 and will be presented at the Salvadoran Embassy in [...]]]></description>
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