For the second time in the last three months members of the Center of Investigations into Investment and Commerce (CEICOM), an active member of the National Roundtable against Mineral Mining, have been kidnapped, robbed and left at an abandoned farm while traveling in Guatemala. In both instances the anti-mining activists were traveling to events in […]
On Sunday October 24th over 300 people gathered in Chalatenango to elect the new CCR board. As always with the CCR, the elections were an all day celebration with updates about the work the CCR has done over the last year, music from Carasque’s band Grupo Emoción, food and local celebrities, including Chalate’s representative to […]
Sistering Successes · We brought 7 delegations from 7 committees, a total of 61 people, to El Salvador to learn and exchange ideas with their sistered communities. · We had 4 volunteers representing Sister Cities in El Salvador and one volunteer in the U.S. office · The New Jersey and San Isidro/Los Amates Sister City […]
The State of Mining in El Salvador · According to Salvadoran Mining Law a company must obtain both an exploration and exploitation permit in order to open a mine in El Salvador. · There are currently 29 active exploration permits and 73 applications. They are for areas in the Northern region of El Salvador, which […]
A Fact Sheet on the Situation in Honduras Honduras Since the Coup · June 28th, 2010 marked a year since a military coup was carried out against the government of President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. The coup was launched after the Zelaya administration enacted policy steps that threatened the dominance of the right wing Honduran […]
Sister Cities just got through with a great 11 day tour of the East Coast. Sister Cities staff were joined on the visit by German Gonzalez, who has been working with CRIPDES in the region of Suchitoto for over 12 years. We visited the committees of Binghamton, NY, Arlington and Cambridge MA, Concord New Hampshire […]
Post-coup repression in Honduras reached a new low last week with the targeting of a concert of the band Café Guancasco, a musical favorite of the coup resistance movement. It took place on September 15, anniversary of the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire. For the second year in a row, the holiday […]
"We welcome justice!" Statement by the Communications Team of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining September 22, 2010 The Specialized Sentencing Court "B" convicted the material assassins of Gustavo Marcelo Rivera Moreno, after concluding a two-day public hearing. After hearing some twenty testimonies and declarations from an accomplice under plea bargain, whose statements were […]
What: Presentation and Q & A about the Commerce Group Mine with David Pereira from CEICOM, the Center of Investigation of Investment and Commerce and the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining. Pereira will speak about the CEICOM study of the mine at Santa Rosa de Lima which was once Central America’s most productive mine […]
1- Prior to the November elections, Hector’s telephones were repeatedly tapped and conversations interrupted and information removed from his cell phone. Men driving in unmarked cars and in police uniform took photographs of him entering his residence. 2- In July and now August, the web networking in his office has been sabotaged and the phone […]