Alex Montalvo

Alex began working with the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights in 2011 for the Northern Border Project, and currently produces communications for the Unfinished Sentences campaign. Born to Puerto Rican and Polish parents, his friends used to call him “Polirican.” He currently lives in Seattle, and drinks way too much coffee as a Master's candidate within the University of Washington’s Communication Leadership Program.
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An elder Salvadoran man who survived the armed conflict is preparing a poster memorializing slain family members for the annual “Encuentro de Victimas” (Meeting of Victims) in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Photo by Alex Montalvo)

Seattleites renew fight for justice in El Salvador’s dirty wars

by Alex Montalvo
In the Eighties, Seattle was a hub for resistance to U.S. funded human rights abuses in Central America. With new hope for justice in El Salvador, some locals are back at it. 
Dec 10, 2013