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"La Sobrevivencia Obliga"

Hay tres documentales cortos: A Safe Place, Nancy Pocock and Salud. Estos documentales fueron creados en el periodo del 80-90, cuando a raiz de la intervencion estadounidense, el regimen militar salvadoreño se mantuvo en el poder a fuerza y balas, creando un desplazamiento interno de refugiados dentro del pais y luego este desplazamiento se agudizo, obligando ha muchos salvadoreños a buscar refugio en Belize, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Canada y paradojicamente Estados Unidos. En estos documentales se destaca la presencia de Nancy Pocock, a quien tuve el gusto de conocer y tratar. Me siento dichoso de haber tenido la oportunidad de participar en estos videos junto con muchos amigos. Tambien hacer un recodatorio de el asesinato de mi tio Ricardo Portillo quien fuera "desaparecido" por uno de los Escuadrones de la Muerte, el era presidente de la Union Ferrocarrilera de El Salvador, dejo dos niños huerfanos, su cadaver nunca fue encontrado.

Luis Portillo

A personal memory of Nancy

Nancy Pocock, a Toronto Quaker who helped an untold number refugees come to Canada, died March 4, 1998, at the age of 87. On Sunday, March 8, I joined 300 others at her Memorial Meeting at Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue. There were refugees there from El Salvador, Viet Nam, Iran, Cambodia, and former U.S. draft resisters, all mourning the death of "Mama Nancy". Among those attending her memorial in Toronto, and her burial beside the historic Yonge Street Meeting House in Newmarket, Ontario, were the Vietnamese Ambassador to Canada, Dinh Thi Minh Huyen, and Judy Darcy, the head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the largest union in Canada.

In 1982, when I began my five-year term as Co-ordinator of Canadian Friends Service Committee at Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, in Toronto, Nancy had already started helping Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees to come to Canada. And it wasn't just material aid they received. Nancy's house on Elgin Avenue, a block from Friends House, was a second home to many of them, and every Thursday evening, the meeting house would reverberate with song, as the Salvandoran refugee organization met there, hosted by Toronto Quakers, led by Nancy.