The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.
CARECEN provides direct services in immigration, housing and citizenship while also promoting empowerment, civil rights advocacy and civic training for Latinos.
The original name of the Los Angeles CARECEN was Central American Refugee Center as it addressed the needs of the arriving refugee immigrants that hoped to get asylum certification[2] The organization opened under its doors to the Central American community of Westlake under the leadership of Linton Joaquin as the executive director.
[7] In 1991, CARECEN sent two of its staff members, along with four attorneys from Gibson, Dunn, & Crtucher law firm, to investigate the massacre at El Zapote.
In the Legal Department, the center offers U visa and Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) services and Temporary protected status (TPS) renewals.
It has recently begun processing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals petitions and Unaccompanied minor screening from the 2014 American immigration crisis.
[13][14] In the parent center, it offers English classes to Spanish-speaking immigrants as well as a new addition called Plaza Comunitaria/Casa Universitaria that allows adults to continue their education by elementary and middle school curriculum.
Country leaders, Jacobo Arbenz and Juan Jose Arevalo were very prominent pieces of the communist party that governed Guatemala.
Through widespread human rights violations in which the people of Guatemala suffered, a three-decade long civil war erupted that spanned from 1960 to 1996.
Much of the atrocities that added to the conflict included death squads which would mercilessly murder large groups of people, as well as requirement of underaged soldiers, both incredible violations of human rights.
The United States bridging the presidential periods of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan at times financially aided El Salvador at a makeable rate of around 50 million dollars a month.
In the early 1990s a peace treaty was signed ending the conflict, but a big question was raised about the need for human rights organizations.
[23] The rebels, known as the Sandinista National Liberation Front, carried out a highly coveted arrangement to overthrow the dictatorship which had been in play for almost half a century.
Through a number of very strategic and merciless methods of fighting, such as kidnapping and ransom, Somoza finally opted to resign his power and gave the control of the country to the Sandinistas.