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Despite the cultural demise of the indigenous people of El Salvador through colonization, civil war, natural disasters, and more recently the economic polarization brought on by globalization, the disenfranchised people I have crossed paths with over the past four years have an incredible hope for peace and desire to improve their condition. This hope derives from the belief that the struggle and deaths of their ancestors will not be wasted. In the words of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated on March 2, 1980 allegedly by government forces: “Let us not think that our dead have left us; they continue loving the same causes for which they died. Others wanted to kill them but they are more present than ever before in the people’s struggle”. Story by John Woods/Redline