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- The indigenous communities of Las Hojas, where a massacre of 74 indigenous persons occurred in 1983, along with those from San Rámon continued thereafter receiving continual threats of eviction.
- The Supreme Court of El Salvador rejected the original indian land claims and is asking for the eviction of the peaceful Nahuat indians who cultivated the Las Hojas cooperative. The assassins involved in the 1983 massacre were never brought to justice.
- The Supreme Court also rejected the Claim of Protection requested by ANIS in the name of the members of the Las Hojas cooperative who are being evicted from their legal plots. The minister of Agriculture, through the Department of Cooperative Associations, has legitimized a small group of persons who were never residents of Las Hojas, so they are now in a position to claim to be the new property owners.
- On January 26, 1996, Salvador García de Maximiliano, a member of ANIS was threatened by five armed persons with painted faces who came to his house and who without identifying themselves, said there would soon be another massacre in Las Hojas like the one in 1983 and that they were going to kill Chief Adrián Esquino Lisco.
- On March 12, 1996, the Office of ANIS was attacked and the National Civil Police took the brothers Rafael Arturo and Armando Antonio Pérez into custody. Both were tortured.
- On May 1, 1996, the home of Margarito Esquino, son of Chief Adrián Esquino Lisco, was destroyed by a hand grenade. Margarito Esquino, followed by his wife Maria, fled to the United States after a series of threats against their lives.
Further historical details of the indigenous struggle in El Salvador, ANIS, and Chief Adrian Esquino Lisco are available within the "LINKS" sections of this WEB page.
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