30 years ago a group of El Salvadoran refugees returned from exile in Nicaragua to El Salvador. They built their own community, Nueva Esperanza. They have strong ties of solidarity to the UK. One of these links is the charity Music for Hope, which Dr Cornelia Gräbner has had the pleasure of supporting through her work on its Board of Trustees.
The collection ‘Mario Payeras’ at the CAMeNA holds documents collected by Mario Payeras, writer, poet, co-founder of the Guatemalan guerrilla group EGP, and counterinsurgent military analyst on behalf of the EGP from whom he eventually split due to political and ethical differences.
The collection Jorge Turner holds materials on a key theme of the CAMeNA, politically engaged and committed journalism. This topic unfolds within the context of mega-projects – in this case, the Panama Canal. The specific legal framework brings into the focus rights activism, de- and neo-colonization, and political organizing as revolutionary processes and democratization.
Collection K consists of the archive of the Commission of Solidarity with Family Members of Prisoners and the Disappeared in Argentina, CoSoFam. The commission was founded by exiles from Argentina and Mexican allies. It contains a wealth of material on the repression carried out during the dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) and on the struggle against the impunity of the perpetrators.
The Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival is celebrated every year in Cork, Ireland. It brings together poets from Cork, from across Ireland and from several other countries. The special theme of the 2019 festival was ‘Poetry-Films.’