Author: albertosaldamando

I am an Indigenous human rights attorney and advocate working primarily on human rights and climate change with the Indigenous Environmental Network. I've been doing international human rights work since 1992, and before that was a political asylum front line lawyer working primarily with Guatemalan and Salvadoran clients. And prior to that I worked in the representation of farmworkers during the farmworker struggles in California. An old man, I think about these things and want to share my thoughts with this blog.
Columbus didn’t die

NPR had a series of interviews this morning, asking Latino people’s reaction to the El Paso murders. I began to examine my own reactions, as a Xicano mixed race Mestizo…

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