Michael E. Lee

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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

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Some English language books about the Jesuit martyrs of #UCA, #ElSalvador. (Details in ALT-TXT.) The book "La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs" by Lucia Cerna, was the basis of the 2022 feature movie "What Lucia Saw" / "Llegaron de noche" about the 1989 massacre of the Jesuits.

Cerna, Lucía. La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2014.

Doggett, Martha. Death Foretold: The Jesuit Murders in El Salvador. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 1993.

Hassett, John J., and Hugh Lacey, eds. Towards a Society That Serves Its People: The Intellectual Contribution of El Salvador’s Murdered Jesuits. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 1991.

Sobrino, Jon. Witnesses to the Kingdom: The Martyrs of El Salvador and the Crucified Peoples. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 2003.

Sobrino, Jon, and Ignacio Ellacuría. Companions of Jesus: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 1990.

Whitfield, Teresa. Paying the Price: Ignacio Ellacuría and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.