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...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...
...McGinn said that he will also recommend that the United States demand that the El Salvadoran government provide charges for all the political prisoners, many of whom have been in jail for several months without any charges being pressed...
...Lastly, McGinn said that the group will request that the American government put pressure on the strife-torn country's government to improve living conditions for the more than 300,000 refugees who have been brutally displaced from their homes...
...McGinn is no stranger to Latin or Central American politics or living conditions. During the past 20 years, he has spent most of his time professionally working on programs to help reform the educational systems in Central American countries. For six of those years he has lived in four different countries teaching and working on programs to help update educational reform...
...McGinn added that he was last in El Salvador six years ago, when he worked on a two-year project designed to analyze an experiment on educational reform. Six years ago "there was a lot of ferment and hostility," McGinn said, adding that now "the climate has changed to outright oppression...