Kelvi Gerardo Zambrano Benítez is a Venezuelan lawyer, human rights defender, and director of the NGO Coalición por los Derechos Humanos y la Democracia (Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy). He represents three Salvadorans who were deported from the United...
The official account of the Central American Province of the Society of Jesus announced this Friday the death of Father José María Tojeira, a renowned Spanish-born priest who became a naturalized Salvadoran and served for many years as rector of the José Simeón Cañas...
Father José María Tojeira, a Jesuit priest, died this Friday in Guatemala City at the age of 78, the Society of Jesus announced on its social media. “With profound sorrow, we announce that this morning Father José María Tojeira passed away in Guatemala City—a...
The Jesuit priest José María Tojeira was one of the first to see the bodies of his six companions murdered at the Universidad Centroamericana de San Salvador (Central American University in San Salvador, UCA) on the morning of November 16, 1989, by a Salvadoran army...
The families of 11 of the victims, interviewed for this report, recount the same story. They speak of sons, nephews, and grandchildren with fever, shuttled between health centers and hospitals, only to be sent home. Day after day, until the dengue entered its acute...
Spain’s judiciary has reaffirmed protection measures for lawyers Rudy Joya and Ivania Cruz, who are also spokespersons for the Unidad de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios (Unit for the Defense of Human and Community Rights, Unidehc), and notified them...
