The following report was prepared by Emily Carpenter, the U.S. staff person for U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, and Meredith Di Francesco, a reporter for radio station WERU in Maine. Both attended this march.
February 13
Twice as many people as organizers expected - an estimated 700 - left the town of Suchitoto Monday morning carrying photos of those who have come to be known as the "Suchitoto 13" and posters reading ''Liberty for the Political Prisoners of Suchitoto''. Organized by the Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), the Foundation for Cooperation and Community Development of El Salvador (CORDES), the Popular Resistance Movement 12th of October (MPR-12), and others, the march travelled 25 kilometers (16 miles) in its first day to arrive for an evening of music, theater, and vigil in the town of Perulapía, Cuscatlán.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the march travelled from Perulapía to Soyapango, an urban municipality in the east of San Salvador. Today the group joins a mass mobilization to arrive at the Special Tribunal building in San Salvador, where they will support the Suchitoto 13's defense lawyers as they present their rebuttal to the accusations of the Attorney General.
(For more legal details of the case, see the February 11 case update.)
Click here to visit the photo gallery of the march. More photos, and video, will be added soon, so visit often. --
US-El Salvador Sister Cities
P.O. Box 2543Plattsburgh, NY 12901
(800) 532-1993, ext.103
sistercities@gmail.com
http://www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org/
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