Thanks to an oral histories project led by Suffolk University's Archives office, here you will find a testimony of Congressman John Joseph Moakley about his involvement in the investigation of the murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her da...
Carlos joined the military when he was 19 years old. He did so to protect his family, thinking that being on the side of the military would protect them from death squads....
Imelda Auron is one of many children from El Salvador who were given up in adoption (many of them kidnapped) during the war. Twenty years later, she was reunited with her family thanks to Pro-Búsqueda....
Joanna Carranza was born into a family of politicians. Her father was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and a retired military officer. In 1989 she joined the FMLN guerrilla army....
Susan Freireich spent many years in El Salvador during the war, first as a member of several humanitarian delegations with the Sister Cities Project and later as a health worker and educator. She is also...
Miguel grew up in a town terrorized by death squads. When he was merely six years old, he was forced to witness the death of his own first grade teacher. By the time he was twelve, he and other children in the town decided to create a defense group, armed...
Cecilia Sosa Pereira was born and raised in San Salvador and had to witness first-hand much of the violence that was happening during the 70s and during the civil war. Cecilia later would become herself a victim of the death squads in an environment where...
Jack Spence is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Associate Professor of Political Science specializing in Central American war and post war democratization....
David Díaz left El Salvador when he was 15 years old because his parents feared he would be forcibly recruited into the military. David is also a painter. His paintings show a sharp contrast between the innocence of childhood and the crude reality...
