Sunday, March 7, 2010
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Compadres is a project developed by Ontario teachers to develop sustainable links with educators in El Salvador. In this work we are assisted by Salvaide in Canada and CRIPDES in El Salvador. We are now in the process of planning our fifth trip for July 2015
In 1980, in the midst of a U.S. funded war the UN Truth Commission called genocidal, the soon-to-be-assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero promised history that life, not death, would have the last word. "I do not believe in death without resurrection," he said. "If they kill me, I will be resurrected in the Salvadoran people."
ReplyDeleteOn this 29th anniversary of his death, the people will march through the streets carrying that promise printed on thousands of banners. Mothers will make pupusas (thick tortillas with beans) at 5 a.m., pack them, and prepare the children for a two-to-four hour ride or walk to the city to remember the gentle man they called Monseñor.