[act-ma] Salvadoran Torture Survivor Speaks at BC Thursday night

[christy at riseup.net]

== Salvadoran Torture Survivor Carlos Mauricio Speaks Out Against US
Repression ==

Join Carlos Mauricio tomorrow night (Thursday) and hear an eyewitness
report from the first human rights delegation to inspect the International
Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) —- a new School of the Americas-style
police training facility in El Salvador.

== THURSDAY APRIL 19 ==
7 pm at Boston College: Higgins Building, Rm 310
Campus Map:  http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html


FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Boston CISPES at 617.576.1709 or
boscispes at gtcinternet.com.

== BACKGROUND ==

In 1982 professor Carlos Mauricio was abducted by the Salvadoran National
Police, detained for two weeks and tortured.  In 2002, Carlos was a
plaintiff in an historic, successful lawsuit that held two retired
Salvadoran generals liable for the crimes of troops under thier command.

In March of this year, Carlos joined Father Roy Bourgeois and Lisa
Sullivan-Rodriguez of School of the Americas Watch in investigating the
new International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA), a police training school
sponsored by the U.S. in San Salvador.


--> SPONSORED BY  Boston CISPES (Committee In Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador) and SOA Watch New England. Founded in 1980, CISPES is a
leading U.S. organization supporting the movement for social justice in El
Salvador.