Kansan Salvadoran Solidarity Action, Lawrence, Kansas August, 2008 Update In May of 2008, a group of individuals met to discuss the future of relations with our sister community of El Papaturro. We met at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM), the sponsor of student delegations from Lawrence, KS over the past 4 years, site […]
Please Join Us in Accompanying CRIPDES in Promoting Free and Fair Elections in El Salvador in March 2009 Elections Observation Delegation: March 10th-19st To register, click here Registration Deadline: February 10th, 2009 Many say that these are the most important elections in Salvadoran history · We will meet with a number of civic and […]
Join us in advocating for free and fair elections in El Salvador With the presidential elections coming up next March and the municipal elections in January, intensity is rising in El Salvador. Mauricio Funes, the presidential candidate for the FMLN, is leading Rodrigo Avila of the right wing party ARENA by as much as 15% […]
U.S Intervention in the 2009 Salvadoran Elections: Will history repeat itself? August, 2008 As El Salvador prepares for the March 2009 presidential elections, memories of U.S. intervention in the country have not been forgotten. From the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Reagan administration sent to the Salvadoran military to suppress the guerrilla forces […]
Killing of Community Leader in Huisisilapa another on the List of Unsolved Homicides Dear Friends, We write you with more sad news of the shooting of Rafaela Hernández Delgado of the CRIPDES repopulated community of Huisisilapa last Thursday the 24th of July. Rafaela was twenty-seven years old, a community leader, and the wife of […]
Contact: Emily Carpenter sistercities@gmail.com 514.664.1074×103 (Canada) Liana Dalton lndalton@gmail.com 608.206.4965 Recently Acquitted Political Prisoner Violently Assassinated Salvadoran and International Groups Call for Investigation into Escalating Political Killings in El Salvador June 10, 2008 – Over 100 international organizations have joined a coalition of over 40 Salvadoran organizations, calling for an investigation of […]
Sister Cities Staff Potable water access shouldn’t be a problem for the tiny community of Chilama in El Salvador. Located just outside of the Port City of La Libertad, Chilama is literally surrounded by water. Chilama is located within two miles of the Pacific Ocean, is tucked into the ChilamaRiver bed, and plays host […]
Civil Society Organizations Demand the Attorney General Investigate the Murders of the Human Rights Activists On May 12th diverse organizations from the Civil Society presented a report to the Attorney General of the Republic (AG) to demand investigations into the various murders of human rights promoters in El Salvador. The report was motivated by […]
PUBLIC STATEMENT AGAINST THE PROJECTS THAT THREATEN HUMAN LIFE AND OUR ENVIRONMENT The Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango, CCR, and the below signed institutions, manifest our rejection and total opposition to the projects of mineral exploitation and all projects that put our lives and our natural resources in danger. The projects […]
International Statement Regarding the Assassination of Hector Antonio Ventura, Ex-Political Prisoner in the Suchitoto 13 case, and Political Killings in El Salvador: May 2008 We join the Association for Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES, the Foundation for the Application and Study of Law, FESPAD, and the more than forty member organizations of the Coalition for […]