Radio Progreso & ERIC-SJ
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| Abbreviation | ERIC |
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| Established | January 1980 |
| Purpose | Human rights advocacy |
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Region served
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Central America especially Honduras |
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Director
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Ismael Moreno Coto, SJ |
| Affiliations | Jesuit, Catholic |
| Website | ERIC-SJ |
| Remarks | ERIC-SJ runs Radio Progreso |
Radio Progreso & ERIC-SJ (Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación – ERIC) is a Jesuit center for reflection, research, and communications, founded in El Progreso, Honduras, in 1980. Its stated aim is to improve the human rights of the rural poor in Honduras. Its work has been extended to the rest of Central America.
Honduras ranks second from the bottom in all of Latin America in per capita GDP, and has the highest per capita homicide rate in the world. ERIC-SJ began from an initiative of Fernando Bandeiram, S.J., as a service to the Catholic parishes around El Progresso, Yoro District, to help the people reflect on the situation of their country as it impacted them. In May 1980 three other Jesuits joined Bandeiram and founded the Reflection, Research and Communication Center at what became Casa San Ignacio at the Jesuit property in El Progresso.
Courses were offered on the "national reality" and a monthly newsletter was published focused especially on the Catholic Church in Latin America. Services were extended to the clergy in San Pedro Sula, Copán Department, and to the general meetings of CONFEREH, which brings together religious congregations that work against human trafficking in Central America.
Early works included dissemination throughout Central America of a denunciation of the massacre allegedly carried out by the El Salvadoran National Guard on the banks of the Sumpul River in El Salvador. This was followed by efforts to organize the Jicaque people in Yoro, Olanchito, and Morazán Departments, assisting them with their land titles.Berta Cáceres, who became world prominent for her efforts to secure water rights for the people and was assassinated for her efforts, was "working in alliance with the parishes of Atlántida and the ERIC and Radio Progreso, initiatives of the Jesuit Ismael Moreno"
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