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...
Elections are a necessary but not sufficient condition for a democratic order. It is rare for an ascent to power not to occur via the electoral path, even if through duplicitous means. Likewise, a free and honest popular vote periodically confirms those who wield...
María Inés Dávila and Rafael Paz Narváez, of the Movimiento Universitario de Pensamiento Crítico, asserted on Friday, September 5, in a radio interview on YSUCA, that there is criminalization and stigmatization of human rights defenders and that, to date, 71 people...
