During the month of April, the state of Arizona passed a draconian law that threatens the civil rights of all and sets the stage for a hostile environment of racial profiling and harassment of anyone suspected of being in the United States without documentation of their legal status in the country. One aspect of the […]
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On Wednesday, April 14 in San Salvador, representatives of community organizations, indigenous communities and environmentalists from Mexico and Central America participated in an International Forum entitled: Mining Companies in Mesoamerica “Sustainable Development or a Threat to Sovereignty?.” Out of the agreements reached at the International Forum we make the following declaration: Companies from Canada […]
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On April 13th, over 5000 police and military were deployed to the valley of Aguán where over 3,500 families have been occupying reclaimed land that was stolen from them by the wealthy Honduran businessmen Miguel Facusse, René Morales and Reynaldo Canales. Observers feared that the army would massacre the landless families if they did not […]
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On March 26, we celebrated the 2010 International CRIPDES Sistering Assembly here in San Salvador with over 70 participants. Representatives attended from CRIPDES communities all over El Salvador, from the Madison, New Jersey and Lawrence Sister Cities committees, from Sister Parish, and from solidarity organizations in Bolivia, Spain and Norway. We came together to talk […]
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Sarah and new co-coordinator Alexandra arrived in Cinquera on Saturday April 17th to participate in their yearly Commemoration of the Fallen. The Commemoration began at dusk with a caminata, a candle lit procession through the town for which we joined about 200 community members. Participants shouted out the names of people from the region who […]
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May 31st is the first day of hearings of Pacific Rim’s case against the government of El Salvador through the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). We hope that you can join us and other Salvadoran solidarity organizations in protesting the hearing in Washington DC. This is a great way to learn more […]
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On February 2nd, more than 140 international social organizations sent a letter to the Attorney General of El Salvador, and President Mauricio Funes denouncing the lack of justice in the cases of murdered environmentalists in the department of Cabañas and demanded measures to assure an impartial and thorough investigation. Among the organizations that signed the […]
There must be immediate, thorough investigations into the murders, threats and harassment that have taken place in Cabanas over the last year. The U.S.'s history of intervention in El Salvador and recent attempts to influence the Salvadoran election are well known. Recently, the U.S. Embassy criticized the National Roundtable Against Mining, denouncing their calls for investigation […]
On January 21st, Oscar Luna, the Ombudsman in Defense of of Human Rights in El Salvador, announced that he had received two death threats against himself and his family since January 8. The second one, delivered January 19, warned him that he had 48 hours to leave the country. The threats are claimed by a […]
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Since October 2009, there have been two volunteers from Lawrence, Kansas living in El Papaturro, Suchitoto, and working in the PROGRESO office. PROGRESO is a branch of CRIPDES working with 25 rural communities in the Suchitoto region. These sisters of solidarity, Jennifer Kongs and Sally Birmingham, will be in El Salvador until the end of […]