01.04.2016
Today we heard a very powerful and moving testimonial from Blanca Garcia, a member of COMADRES, an acronym that means the committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador. This was the heaviest conversation of the day, sandwiched between visiting Monseñor Oscar Romero's burial site in the crypt at Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador and the Iglesia De Rosario, which served as a protective barrack during a massacre After the COMADRES meeting, we went to a coffee coop in the Ecoparque. The guide at the coffee coop told us ghost stories, but the words of Blanca were much more haunting. So much corruption occurred in pre-civil war, during war time, and ,much of that same corruption continues today. Our duty is to be the voice of the unheard. As college students, we've never received such gruesome knowledge in textbooks. We we asked how El Salvador;s Civil War is taught in their school system, Blanca explained that the schools are in fear of taking a side, so all that is mentioned is the conquest.
Today we heard a very powerful and moving testimonial from Blanca Garcia, a member of COMADRES, an acronym that means the committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador. This was the heaviest conversation of the day, sandwiched between visiting Monseñor Oscar Romero's burial site in the crypt at Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador and the Iglesia De Rosario, which served as a protective barrack during a massacre After the COMADRES meeting, we went to a coffee coop in the Ecoparque. The guide at the coffee coop told us ghost stories, but the words of Blanca were much more haunting. So much corruption occurred in pre-civil war, during war time, and ,much of that same corruption continues today. Our duty is to be the voice of the unheard. As college students, we've never received such gruesome knowledge in textbooks. We we asked how El Salvador;s Civil War is taught in their school system, Blanca explained that the schools are in fear of taking a side, so all that is mentioned is the conquest.