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Sep
Sep
Una pequeña selección de fotos / A small selection of pictures: Puede ver nuestro video de la marcha en Instagram (IG Reel available HERE)
Author Archives: Mario Guevara
12
Sep
Sep
This year Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities continues to participate in the Pedal for Peace project which this year celebrates 35 years of people and organization in Chicago coming together to fundraise in support of projects in Latin America and Immigrant Rights. The project continues this unique tradition of connecting people to the work for human rights […]
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Aug
Aug
USESSC is happy to invite you to our upcoming event! Come and have a virtual coffee with us while you get to practice (or learn!) a bit of Spanish while talking about El Salvador. Don’t be afraid to join even if you know just a couple of words. We want you to have a good […]
01
Aug
Aug
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) As previously mentioned, we are preparing a small tour and we are finalizing some details with the help of friends and committees in the United States. The two speakers will be our very own Zulma Tobar and CRIPDES’ president Lorena Araujo. Lorena Araujo is the current president of the Association […]
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Jul
Jul
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) On July 26, relatives of Salvadorans unfairly arrested during the current State of exception marched in front of the Human Rights Office and later went to the Legislative Assembly with a letter for the congresspeople. No representative spoke to them. Relatives of people detained during El Salvador's state of exception […]
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Jun
Jun
Being a young person in El Salvador is not an easy thing. Several CRIPDES regionals report of scholarship recipients who have told them they will no longer be part of the programs because they decided to migrate, either because they see no job opportunities, or due to violence or harassment either by gangs or by […]
09
Jun
Jun
We know it’s difficult to find reliable news. USESSC has a collection for you if you want to catch up with what’s happening in El Salvador and with U.S. foreign policy: ‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands into despair (The Guardian) Tom Phillips, on the State of Exception […]
07
Jun
Jun
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) “The U.S. detained and expelled five times more Salvadorans in 2021 than in 2020,” ElSalvador.com reported earlier this year. Not even the COVID pandemic stopped the flow of people into the United States. The migrations project funded by Cornell and with the participation of a team from the University of Ithaca […]
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May
May
The Share Foundation and U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities (USESSC) would like to invite you to our upcoming webinar: Rural youth and the state of exception in El Salvador We will have the participation of three young persons from the regions of UCRES, La Libertad and Chalatenango. They will share what the state of exception […]
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Apr
Apr
Dado el temor que sienten muchas personas, especialmente jóvenes, en las zonas rurales en las que trabaja CRIPDES, hemos creado esta compilación de recursos para facilitarles el reporte de violaciones a Derechos Humanos que puedan sufrir durante la extensión del régimen de excepción implementado por el gobierno salvadoreño. TELÉFONOS PROCURADURÍA PARA LA DEFENSA DE […]