Guatemalan National Robbed
MUGGING Guatemalan National 31yo Feliz Itzp Oxlay was attended to in the central base walk in clinic of Comandos de Salvamento in San Salvador. He was injured during an assault in the Tiendona Market near…
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Kids Caught in Crossfire
FIVE YOUTH SHOT IN SAN MARTÍN Three Comandos de Salvamento ambulances transported three minors that were shot during a gunfight in the small neighborhood of Cantón La Florin San Martin San Salvador this afternoon. The…
CDS in Truth Commission Documentary
Comandos de Salvamento are seen here during the civil war general offensive of 1989 evacuating war wounded civilians. The original amateur documentary on the United Nations Truth Commission can be seen here.
Immortalized in an Anthropology Book
A Salvadoran student of Anthropology recently forwarded us a scanned image from her book Cultures and customs of El Salvador by Boland, R. (2001). Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press. The image was taken during the general…
MOI: Hit with a Rock
In many parts of the world there are a variety of ways to be assaulted. In El Salvador, weapons used are often incorporated into verbs and the common language of the street. The infinitive verb…
Stabbing Victim
18yo Gabriela Sofia Amaya was attended to by Comandos de Salvamento and transported to Rosales ER with three stab wounds. Three assailants attacked her in front of the Altamira Condos, Talapo Street on the eastern…
Die with Your Boots On
In December of 2004, a subjournal of El Diario del Hoy called Vértice presented a great article written by Juan Carlos Rivas. It described the work of Comandos de Salvamento along with the Blue, Green,…
Street Protests
This last Friday, Comandos de Salvamento evacuated civilians in downtown San Salvador when street vendors started to protest. Most of those helped were the elderly and children that got trapped between the UMO (Unidad Mantenimiento…
A Portrait of the Central Base @ Night
Iván Escobar Diario Co Latino Translated by Marco At night when most are at home asleep, others are helping people in need, EMS workers at the ready to assist those in trouble. The main base…
Civil War 1981
On January 10th 1981, the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberación Nacional started what they called their “final offensive” against a revolutionary military Junta “coup d’etat” that had recently taken over the Salvadoran government. The…
Comando EMS Volunteer Murdered
Family members and CDS bury the remains of 17 yo Volunteer Comando Christian Neftali Escalón at the municipal cemetary of Apopa. Christian was shot by unknown assailants this last Wednesday night while driving a Microbus…
Grenade Thrown in the Ex-Cuartel Market
CDS attended to patients that were affected by gas caused by a grenade that exploded inside the infamous Ex-Cuartel Market in downtown San Salvador on October 18th, 2010. Dozens of people were attended by Comandos…
