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Noel McGinn, a well-known Latin Central American educational reformer and social activist, will present his findings at a national press conference today along with the six other educators who travelled with him through El Salvador and Nicaragun...
McGinn and his colleagues toured the two countries under the auspices of Faculties for Human Rights in El Salvador and Central America (FACHRES...
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...
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...