Interview with Carlos R. Mauricio, 2014 February 20

Interview conducted in Spanish. Carlos Mauricio, Director of the Stop Impunity Project, discusses the two-week period he was held and tortured by the Salvadoran military and his activism in El Salvador and the United States. In this interview, Mauricio begins by recounting his childhood and education in El Salvador, his involvement with the student union, and his eventual imprisonment and torture by the Salvadoran government. Mauricio details the after effects of his detainment and torture, his legal suit against the two generals responsible for his imprisonment, and the ongoing work of the Stop Impunity Project. This interview was conducted by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., a graduate student in Journalism and Latin American Studies, whose research focuses upon issues of migration during the Salvadoran Civil War, specifically the deportation of adults who were brought to the United States as children during the period of the civil war.