Salvadoran Indian Chief in Dire Health

This is the third time Brother Adrian has been hospitalized in the last year, mostly due to a treatable condition. However, he has been unable to afford the medications to keep his diabetes under control. The indigenous peoples that brother Adrian represents in El Salvador live on about ONE DOLLAR A DAY, but the medicine needed to keep him alive costs $360 a month. The lack of access to adequate medical control has caused him to nearly lose his sight, and both kidneys have failed.

Chief Esquino Lisco, with whom I have worked for 25 years, is the head of the three indigenous nations of Cuscatlán (now called El Salvador) that include the Mayas, Lencas and Nahoas. He is the spiritual leader of the National Association of Salvadoran Indigenous Nations (ANIS) whose headquarters is located in Sonsonate in the western part of the country, near the Guatemalan border. He has visited over 75 countries and is renowned throughout the world for his efforts to defend indigenous human rights.

Brother Adrian has survived multiple attempts on his life and those of his indigenous brothers and sisters in El Salvador.  He and the members of ANIS have been displaced from their lands, jailed, violated, and massacred because of their work. Let us not permit the world to lose this great leader.

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