Photo from Radio Progreso. The image on the banner is Bernardo Caal Xol, a leader of the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón, a collective of 38 Maya Q’eqchi communities opposed to the Oxec and Renace dams on the Cahabón River and its tributaries. Criterio.hn reports: “Alliance of defenders of water and Read more…
Photo: On April 19, 1989, PBI volunteers (seated) observed outside while Salvadoran police prepared to storm the CRIPDES office with 60 people inside, including PBI volunteer Eva Scarfe. Photo by Carolyn Mow. As Peace Brigades International approaches its 40th anniversary in 2021, PBI-Canada is looking back at some key moments Read more…
Today, March 24, marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Oscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador. Jon Lee Anderson reported in The New Yorker, “In a homily that Romero delivered on the day before he was assassinated, which was broadcast on the radio, he issued an appeal to soldiers Read more…
Many may remember the extraordinary story of Karen Ridd, a Peace Brigades International volunteer in the late 1980s. In December 1989, the Canadian news magazine Maclean’s reported, “Following a two-week trip to Nicaragua in 1986, Ridd decided to put her beliefs in social justice to work in Central America. She Read more…