Our visit to El Salvador has come all too quickly to an end. It is a small but complex country: a place the size of Wales but where people in the capital have almost no awareness of what happens in the countryside.
The most densely populated country in Latin America – but from which 100 people [...]
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June 15, 2008
El Salvador: Blessed are the poor…
June 15, 2008
El Salvador: The post-war generation
Just when we thought that Guarjila was the end of the world, we found ourselves in places even more remote and even closer to the hills that marked the Honduran border.
The views were breathtaking, the inclines heart-quaking and the roads bone-shaking.
Arcatao, like Guarjila, was a town that had been deserted because of the civil war.
We [...]
June 15, 2008
El Salvador: Missionaries and mission
One of the main focuses of CAFOD’s work with poor communities around the world is in HIV and AIDS – it was therefore right that we should spend one day of our time here with ContraSida.
We heard how for 15 years they have been working to improve the lives of people living with HIV, to [...]
June 15, 2008
El Salvador: Confession, penance or reconciliation?
The news in the UK has recently been full of stories of gang violence and the apparent menace of young men stalking the streets.
Such images have been stalking the streets of San Salvador for much longer – and we had the opportunity to see some of these images face to face.
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