HONDURAS. Since June of 2009, Gladys Lanza, the Coordinator of the Woman’s Movement for Peace Visitación Padilla has received a series of threats and abuses. The last offense began on July 14th 2010, when Visitación Padilla issued a press release condemning the militarization. The threats that continued accompanied by a series of emails written to […]
Since June of 2009, Gladys Lanza, the Coordinator of the Woman’s Movement for Peace Visitación Padilla has received a series of threats and abuses. The last offensive began on July 14th 2010, when the organization issued a press release condemning the militarization in Honduras following the coup. The threats have included unidentified gunmen firing shots […]
Overview On August 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2010 members of the USESSC network and staff traveled to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to learn about the current situation one year after the coup and to make connections with Honduran organizations for future work. Michael Ring, Michael Ring-Martinez, Alexandra Early, Jan Morrill, Jesse Kates-Chinoy, Marianela Funes and Jesse Dyer-Stewart […]
August 17, 2010 by Michael Ring The gravitas of Bertha Oliva, the director of COFADEH (The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras), is built on 25 years of tireless work for human rights after having a family member disappeared by the U.S.-backed Honduran national security state. Since the 1980’s, Bertha and […]
On the recent USESSC trip to Honduras we received a request from our friends at COFADEH, The Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, for an urgent action in support their colleague, Hector Soto, a leader in the Honduran resistance and director of the Civil Society Group in Honduras. Take […]
Visits in June and July from leaders representing the Honduran coup d’etat and resistance movement surrounded Honduras’s reincorporation to the Integration System of Central America (SICA) and sparked controversy among Salvadorans. Coup Mastermind Comes to San Salvador On June 22, coup mastermind Roberto Micheletti visited El Salvador, reportedly saying his presence “was not to divide, […]
The Cambridge, Arlington, Watertown and Belmont, Massachusetts Sister Cities invite you and your fellow activists to attend the 2010 National Gathering on the long weekend of October 8 to 10th. We’ll be hosting you in Cambridge and are planning both meetings and activities that we hope will continue to solidify our National Network, inspire us […]
David Pérez-Diario Co Latino http://www.diariocolatino.com/es/20100723/nacionales/82506/?tpl=69 (Unofficial Translation) The National Roundtable Against Mining, with support from various international organizations, demanded that the Canadian Embassy in El Salvador stop favoring from Pacific Rim and other mining companies, since they only cause pollution and damage the health of the population. Since the left-wing government has said it will […]
By Konchok Lama For twelve students from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and the three chaperons, the Sister Cities Youth Delegation was a great opportunity to learn the simplicity, success and struggles of El Salvador in the Cambridge Sister City – San Jose Las Flores and other municipalities. We spent ten packed […]
