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Cruz Verde veterans receive recognition CV Veterans website and Facebook Credit: Gloria Silvia OrellanaOriginal link: Diario Co Latino, Photos from CVV FB Many are grandparents, some live outside the country, and others gave their…
Credit: AFP Photos: CDS Translation: Marco Comandos de Salvamento, an EMS agency with limited resources but with courage and dedication, reports 50 years of humanitarian work in El Salvador that sometimes becomes dangerous because of…
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.
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…
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,…
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…
Gloria Astrid Hurtarte Cornejo, daughter of the founder of Comandos de Salvamento was interviewed and gave her thoughts on her father. “My dad was born on June 17 1932 in Armenia and died on March 24, 1993. He…
Mark Hoffman, Wenatchee Social worker, and a collaborator with Comandos de Salvamento since 1996 as an EMT, will becoming a real Ironman for the first time by competing in the Ironman triathlon June 27th in…
Today is the thirtieth year anniversary of the murder of San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero y Galdamez. Comandos de Salvamento was there during his burial. Video Footage by Journalist John Hoagland. Comandos de Salvamento/Green Cross…
Twenty years ago in the neighborhoods of San Salvador: Mejicanos, Ciudad Delgado, Escalón, Soyapango and others were pure war zones. It is important to rememer the anonymous EMS heroes that put themselves in harms way to…
Comandos de Salvamento had a birthday this last Wednesday Sept 30th celebrating 49 years since its founding. Volunteers and andministrative personell from the Central Base in San Salvador celebrated by sharing a cake. During the…
69 yo Oscar Aquino Rosales a Comando that worked many years and saving lives during the civil war died this pasunday Sept. 13th due to a prolonged illness. During the 1980 Offensive in Ciudad Delgado,…
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