The example of the many people who gave their lives drove me to become what I am now, a defender of human rights. She was born in the University of El Salvador as a Doctorate in Law (1974). She gave birth to five children. She defended the rights of the workers as the Vice-Minister of […]
Peace is not built, peace is something within us. What we need to build are the processes to manifest it. We cannot buy or obtain it, because peace is inherent. Marta Benavides is a spiritual leader who has led many initiatives towards peace in El Salvador. Marta has faced great dangers and lost many friends […]
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society. She was good with a camera since her childhood. As a young girl, she wanted to be a member of a religious order, but […]
Under a strange empire, the martyrdoms amassed, / and destroyed; / perplexed, lost, their memory denied, / alone. (Apu Inka ApawllkamanQuechua poetry) María Eugenia Aguilar was introduced to the ancestral world through an indigenous nanny who spoke the Quiché language. After spending time with notable Indigenous Americans, she began to identify herself fully with the […]
My dream is that one day, in spite of the tiredness, we shall be able to achieve much more than what was achieved through armed conflict. María Esperanza Ortega has been working half her life for human rights. For 12 of those years, she fought against death during the armed conflict that devastated her country, […]
Hope also feeds us. Not the hope of the foolish, but the other one. She is a woman of the countryside, affable and sensible. Who could guess that behind her serene appearance there is a personal history of pain and loss? Defender of human rights for 22 years, her courage and determination have allowed her […]
