Word: mcginn
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...McGinn and his colleagues toured the two countries under the auspices of Faculties for Human Rights in El Salvador and Central America (FACHRES...
...association coordinates its trip with Congress' discussions about military aid to the countries "to provide an alternative source of information," McGinn added...
Though the group spent a week in both EI Salvador and its Nicaragua, McGinn said that he and his colleagues will focus on EI Salvador and what he termed the lack of improvement of human rights In EI Salvador during the past six months. According to McGinn's group, conditions in the war-torn country have deterionated since last January, when another group of educators sponsored by FACHRES-CA visited El Salvador. He added that the State Department claims that nothing has changed...
During their week-long stay in El Salvador, McGinn and his traveling companions met with the country's president, the minister of defense and other government and religious leaders along with political prisoners and refugees. "When you come from this empire, you find that all the doors are open," McGinn said, adding that both the prisoners and refugees openly described the reasons for their confinement...
...result of the journey, McGinn said that he will discuss three major points today. First of all, he will recommend that the United States appropriate $30 million to help rebuild the national university which has been ravaged and destroyed ever since the army closed it down three years...