Saul Solorzano touched thousands of lives in D.C.’s Central American community

There was a terrible, quiet irony to Saul Solorzano's death.

He had grown up in the maelstrom of a vicious civil conflict in El Salvador that decimated his generation and killed many of his childhood friends. He had survived an illegal desert crossing into the United States as a teenager, then spent years as a semi-clandestine organizer in national movements that opposed U.S. policy in El Salvador and provided a haven for undocumented war refugees.

For the past two decades, as head of the nonprofit Central American Resource Center in the District, known as Carecen, he had fought to obtain legal amnesty for Central American refugees and helped thousands in the Washington area secure a perch in American society.

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Joshua Partlow 04 Sep, 2011

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