After the coffee/chocolate town in Nicaragua, we went down to Managua in order to catch a 5AM bus to San Salvador the next day. It was actually a pretty nice bus though, just 11 hours is long which included 2 border crossings (Nicaragua-Honduras and then Honduras-El Salvador). We lived in luxury in San Salvador...in an actual hotel. It was called Hotel Tazumel and we had free internet, air conditioning, cable tv, and even free (good) breakfast in the morning.
In San Salvador, we went to the UCA, a Jesuit university in San Salvador, that was the sight of the assassination of 6 Jesuit priests, their maid, and her daughter in 1989 by government soldiers. It also had a museum that paid tribute to Archbishop Romero. Monseñor Romero was a Salvadoran priest who spoke out against the injustices and massacres occuring in El Salvador in the 1970s. He was then assassinated while giving mass in 1979. It was really moving to see all of this, especially since Kristin and the CMT got me more interested in the subject. It is said that 16 of the soldiers who commited the killing of the Jesuits were trained at the School of the Americas in Georgia. Every year there are protests to close this military school and this past year in Ecuador we held a prayer vigil for those going to the protest and the lives lost. Also, my good friend Kristin (my coworker from Youthworks in San Fran) went to a federal prison last Spring for crossing onto federal property while protesting 2 years ago.
Well, other than that, we are doing really well and are now in Honduras. Tomorrow we are going to Utila, one of the Bay Islands, to do a Scuba certification class! Should be pretty cool.
Love you all.
Paz,
Taylor
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