By Rachel Wyon, Cambridge-San Jose La Flores Committee As part of the Sister Cities Election Observation Delegation, I was in El Salvador from January 28-February 5. Election Day on February 2nd was a spectacular day. Twenty-two years after the signing of the Peace Accords – a short generation ago – and the FMLN and […]
With less than a week to go until the second round of voting, there is a sense of calm throughout El Salvador that would be unprecedented in elections past. Although Sister Cities is not bringing electoral observers for this second round, several other solidarity organizations will, and the Sister Cities staff and network supporters will […]
February 23, 2014 Cristian Melendez, LA PRENSA GRAFICA Environmental movement presented a set of proposals to the FMLN candidate asking for greater commitment on the issues. The Movement of Victims Affected Climate Change and Corporations (MOVIAC) delivered a proposal to the presidential candidate of the FMLN, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, yesterday in San Isidro, Cabañas. […]
Published by the Oxfam America blog Written by Adam Olson, a Sister Cities Elections Observation Delegate A second-round presidential election will be held in El Salvador on March 9th. As the people of El Salvador went to voting centers on February 2nd to elect the country’s fifth post-war president, I was there, grateful to watch history […]
By Sister Cities Volunteer and Elections Observer Cori Ring The weeks leading up to the first round of elections here were intense, full of last minute campaigning and fresh waves of fear spurred by the spiking crime and murder rate in the new year. To hear ARENA tell it, the crime wave was just […]
“They welcomed us with open arms. It made me see how lucky we really are, and gives me a better understanding of the culture of other places.” – Rafi, age 13 “It was amazing how we made friends so quickly. Everything was so different but I loved it. It’ll make me less likely to take […]
With El Salvador’s second round of presidential elections just one week away, the coalition of solidarity organizations has created a website with up-to-the-moment news about the electoral context and updates from observation sites on voting day. Sister Cities is one of the organiozations that will be sending news this week and throughout the day on […]
In the last two weeks the executive published some 80 decrees and Congress approved some 20 new laws and a great quantity of reform proposals to the Honduran legislation – that is more than in 2012 and 2013 together and hasn’t been seen since 1982! Here are some of the highlights of those reforms: Among these reforms is […]
Sister Cities has brought electoral observation delegations to El Salvador for 20 years since the first presidential elections following the Peace Accords in 1994 to advocate for transparency of the democratic process and to support the communities of our partner organization, CRIPDES. Now, 20 years and 4 presidential terms later, a delegation of 10 individuals […]
By Cori Ring, Sister Cities Volunteer For the United States government, Central America remains a key strategic region for a variety of factors, including US business interests couched in terms of ¨progress and development¨ and the continuing ¨War on Drugs¨ that provides a convenient and important justification for continued US military aid to countries […]