Heavy-metals pollution threatens indigenous agriculture throughout the region, reports Edgardo Ayala.
By Edgardo Ayala
in San Salvador
Inter Press Service
Like an octopus, metals mining has been spreading its tentacles throughout Central America and dealing a blow to the region’s agriculture an
Addressing Mental Health as a Community Issue in El Salvador
Mental health project offers a series of workshops to help the residents of Arcatao work through trauma.
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A couple watches as workers bury the bodies of people who died from COVID-19 in El Salvador.
Six years ago, as U.S. members of the El Salvador Mental Health Project and the Association for the Development of El Salvador convened a meeting of people who had been health promoters during their countryâs twelve-year civil war (1980-1992), it immediately became clear that asking them to talk about their experiences as lay health care providers was going to be emotionally difficult.