US Citizens Concerned: Salvadoran Government Accusations Implicate Civilians in “Armed Group Activity” without Evidence Accusations during Close Presidential Race Raise Serious Concerns about Military Deployment and Independence of State Institutions Report by US-El Salvador Sister Cities January 19, 2009 Introduction: We, US Citizens are very concerned over the nature of recent public accusations by […]
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The Electoral Observation Delegation of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities in coordination with the Initiative for Social Democracy (ISD) consisted of 8 persons which included nurses, psychologists, professors, environmentalists, and sociologists. These individuals came from various cities of the United States and Sweden representing the organization Sister Cities and its 17 committees in the United States. […]
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By Arthur Brice, CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/el.salvador.election/ Tallies from Sunday’s nationwide voting showed El Salvador’s main leftist party losing its hold on the capital but opening a lead Monday in the Legislative Assembly. Violeta Menjivar, the incumbent mayoral candidate of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, did not concede defeat in the mayor’s […]
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By Leigh Hardy The political slogan “Yes We Can” has contextualized my understanding of democracy since I was born, but in its original language of Spanish. During high school, my mother was active in supporting the United Farm Workers movement, where the slogan “Si Se Puede” has its origins. When we visited her small […]
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CRIPDES Position Regarding Pacific Rim Notice of Intent January 2009 Confronting the threat of the suit from the Mining Corporations (Pacific Rim) under the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA), the Association for the Development of El Salvador CRIPDES, states: At the end of 2001 the political parties ARENA, PCN, […]
January 2009 The communities and citizen organizations of the National Table Against Metal Mining express the following: We are grateful to the prominent Archbishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Fernando Saenz Lacalle, for the firm position of the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador (CEDES) against the exploration and exploitation of metal mining in the country. We congratulate […]
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As Election Approaches, Increased Agression Toward Citizens in Cinquera January 13, 2009 Cinquera, a municipality close to Suchitoto that is governed by the FMLN, has recently been the target of dangerous aggression by the ARENA party. Last month, ARENA supporters in Cinquera sent a list of 60 community members to the head of […]
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By Sebastian Dario Last week the Canadian company Pacific Rim Mining Corp escalated their tactics for putting pressure on the Salvadoran government to administer exploitation permits for open-pit cyanide gold mining in El Salvador by filing a Notice of Intent (NOI) against the Salvadoran government under the Central American-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). […]
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Military Occupation in Suchitoto CommunitiesThreatens Voters Before Elections January 6th, 2009 On Tuesday December 16th 2008, 150 soldiers armed with heavy artillery entered the community of el Papaturro, in the zone of La Bermuda, Suchitoto. The soldiers set up a military camp and stayed in the community, then moved to the neighbouring community […]
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The dirty campaign in El Salvador is worsening. Radio and television ads under the name ¨Fuerza Solidaria¨ have been manipulating statements from US officials such as Barack Obama´s advisor Dan Restrepo, as part of a fear campaign to convince people not to vote for the FMLN. The Fuerza Solidaria has also made ads saying that […]