Nayib Bukele decreed a 21 days quarantine throughout the territory, due to the threat of Coronavirus COVID-19. He assured there were no confirmed or suspected cases in the country and that these measures were preventive (X). Meetings of more than 500 people will be prohibited during thosee 21 days that started yesterday, March 11th. The […]
The bodies of Angelino López, Maximiliano Henríquez and Maria Santos Abrego have returned to Arcatao. They were murdered by the army in La Vega village (Cantón La Vega) on june 3rd, 1982. This is what “Diario El Mundo” published about it: The remains of three victims of the armed conflict were handed over today to […]
Last night ARENA, PDC and PCN voted in favor of a new amnesty law, “The Reconciliation Law”. One of the main criticism to this law is “that it allows judges to significantly commute sentences for reasons of health or age, or because alleged perpetrators collaborate“. President Bukele has said he plans to veto it. Nevertheless, […]
(ARTÍCULO DE CARMEN ESCOBAR PARA GATOENCERRADO) The Minister of Health, Ana Orellana Bendeck, was questioned by the Legislative Assembly, on Saturday, February 15th, to explain why the water distributed by the National Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA) in San Salvador, arrived with bad taste, pestilent and in some cases even with sediment during […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday, Sister Cities had the opportunity to facilitate a call between Carina Bandhauer’s students at the Western Connectitut State University and young members of Zaragoza Youth Connection (Conexión Juvenil Zaragoza), a group coordinated by Eduardo Jiménez of CRIPDES Sur. In the conversation, the participants were able to share about the situation […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday the board of directors and the women’s group of Chilama organized a delicious lunch to which they invited the team of CORDES, CRIPDES Sur, Sister Cities and Ann Legg, as a representative of our friends in Crystal Lake. Lunch served as a prelude to the delivery of the commemorative plaque […]
(EDITORIAL DE CÉSAR CASTRO PARA FACTUM) The chief employee of Salvadorans has decided to stand as the highest interpreter of the Constitution. Despite the same Constitution. Nayib Bukele, who until February 9 was the president of El Salvador, decided to trust his visions – and in a God who apparently speaks to him – […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Joan Brooks, head of the Philadelphia – Las Anonas committee first came to El Salvador in 1990 and she knew she wanted to come back. Once she did, she created a photo album of Las Anonas de Santa Cruz. The album has an interesting introduction but I wanted to know more. […]
We denounce the blow to democracy that President Bukele perpetrated in the Legislative Assembly The Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), representing more than 300 communities, makes our concern known after President Nayib Bukele’s attack on the Legislative Assembly on Sunday, February 9 of this year. We consider it a serious Human […]
Denunciamos el golpe a la democracia que el presidente Bukele perpetró en la Asamblea Legislativa La Asociación para el Desarrollo de El Salvador (CRIPDES) en representación de más de 300 comunidades hacemos de su conocimiento nuestra preocupación ante el atentado del presidente Nayib Bukele contra La Asamblea Legislativa sucedido el día domingo 9 de febrero […]