November 21th, 2012 by Alexandra Early On November 18th, Hondurans came out in droves to vote for their preferred parties in the country´s first primary elections since the formation of a new left-wing party, LIBRE. The Liberation and Re-foundation Party, LIBRE, was formed with the help of the Honduran National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) […]
On November 20, twenty-four organizations from the U.S. and Canada sent a letter to the San Salvador City Council and to the Office of the President of El Salvador in which they denounced and demanded justice in the case of violent evictions of vendors executed by the Mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano. The page […]
From October 5th to 17th, Sister Cities’s traveled up and down the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine with CRIPDES’s leader Zulma Hernandez who shared the challenges, successes and lessons of the Salvadoran social movement . This year, the National Gathering was hosted by the Philadelphia committee on October 6th-7th, where members of the […]
November 11th, 2012, by Alexandra Early and Janice Morrill On October 20th, hundreds of people marched in Cabañas, El Salvador to voice their opposition to the proposed gold mining project of Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining company. The anti-mining movement in El Salvador has been growing over the past decade and in 2007, under pressure […]
Donate Now to Make this Election Observation Delegation Possible! Support Sister Cities in our effort to bring representatives of the Salvadoran social movement to support their Honduran brothers and sisters and serve as international observers during Honduras’ primary election on November 18th, when supporters of LIBRE, the party of the nonviolent National Front for Popular […]
CounterPunch Magazine: Central America’s Newest “Death Squad Democracy” September 14, 2012 by Andy Thayer, part of the September La Voz de los de Abajo delegation My first day in Honduras last week was also my first in a truly “Third World” country, though from what I’ve seen, portions of Russia and the Appalachians could give […]
Sign a Petition to Stop the Neoliberal Model Cities Project from Moving Forward in Honduras Defend the Sovereignty of Honduras and the Culture and Territory of the Garifuna People! Click here to sign a petition asking the Supreme Court of Honduras to declare the Special Development Regions (RED) Law Unconstitutional. In 2010, the government […]
<<Also see news about the Canadian mining company Goldcorp's efforts to influence Guatemalan laws below>> Mining for Gold: A “Pact with the Devil”? The economic crisis—and the rising price of gold—have spurred North American firms to reopen mines and attack environmental regulations. Here’s what we can learn from El Salvador’s moratorium on new mining permits. […]
Source: School of the Americas Watch and the Honduras Solidarity Network August 24, 2012 Over the last few weeks, thousands of you around the country have sent messages to your members of Congress, urging them to ask U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to suspend U.S. assistance to the Honduran military and police, given the […]
In October 2012, Sister Cities will be hitting the road on our East Coast speaking tour. We will be going all the way from Pennsylvania to Maine along with Zulma Hernandez, a dynamic young CRIPDES organizer with years of experience in youth, political and women´s organizing. Our tour starts at the Sister Cities National Gathering […]