The Historical Archives

THE ARCHIVES

In August 2019 El Rescate donated its historic archives to California State University Northridge (CSUN) Oviatt Library Special Collections. The resource now available to students and scholars includes primary source material for the Index to Accountability, daily chronologies, reports and analysis (1985-1994), Spanish and English clippings (1981-1994) and more.

For information on the archive, please contact oviattsca.@csun.edu

The Jesuit Assassinations

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION

In 1990 El Rescate and the Instituto de Estudios Centroamericanos compiled a chronology of events during the immediate months of the investigation following the November 16, 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. The book, published by Sheed and Ward, also contains writings of Ignacio Ellacuría, Martin Baró and Segundo Montes. Copies are available through the link below:

The Death Squads in El Salvador

HISTORY

In 1994 El Rescate in El Salvador anonymously published “Los Escuadrones de la muerte en El Salvador,” a compilation of U.S. journalists’ investigations into the civilian-military death squads that operated with impunity from the late 1970s through the post-war period. For the first time this information was available in Spanish. The book also contained new information on the history of these clandestine groups. It has been reprinted several times in El Salvador by UCA Editores and can be seen online through the link below: