By Lauren Carasik Originally Published on April 22, 2014 by Al Jazeera America Organization´s Investor Protection Panel Disempowers Marginalized Communities Last week more than 300 international and national civil society organizations wrote to the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, during its biannual meeting in Washington, denouncing the bank’s involvement in the case of Pac […]
By Yolanda Magaña originally published April 9, 2014 in Spanish. Unofficial translation Representatives of the U.S. government reaffirmed yesterday that El Salvador does not meet three conditions to access Millennium Challenge Corporation Funds (MCC), the program known as Fomilenio II, which have to do with fighting money laundering, free trade and the investment […]
‘May is the road to victory’ By Ramon Amaya Amador on April 15, 2014 This article was first published in Honduras in 1963 and was recently translated into English by Lucy Pagoada-Quesada. Amaya was a much-revered author and journalist whose novel “Prisión Verde” exposed the wretched conditions on the U.S.-owned banana plantations, where he worked as […]
Lovely members of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, I’d like to let you know that i’m leaving my position as SC El Salvador Co-Coordinator. I have loved working for Sister Cities so much! I’m leaving the position because I’m moving to Peru to live with my husband, but I´m bringing Sister Cities and CRIPDES in my […]
On Wednesday, March 26th, 11 young community leaders, including 2 Sister City scholarship students – Geovanni and Emerson – were sentenced to 4 years in prison for “illicit organization,” which is another way of accusing them of being gang members. While Geovany and Emerson where well known within Sister Cities and other international organizations because of […]
Water safe from privatization for now Originally published on the CISPES blog With the ink barely dry on the State Department’s commitments to work with the incoming administration of Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the leftist Farabundo Martí Liberation Front (FMLN), US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte continues her crusade for privatization policy, intervening in El […]
Chalatenango Free of Mining International Observer Delegation: Community Consultations in El Salvador September 15-22, 2014 This delegation aims to bring international presence to observe community consultations in the department of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Participants in the delegation can expect to:
Arlington families travel to ‘sister city’ Teosinte By Beth Soltzberg Arlington fourth-grader Rachel Barglow, fifth-grader Jackson Dray, and seventh-graders Rafi Barglow and Isabella Dray knew they’d have a very different kind of February vacation this year. With family members, they spent the week in Teosinte, the rural El Salvadoran village that has been Arlington’s […]
The President-elect of El Salvador has publicly committed to prohibit new mining during his administration, just as his predecessors have done since 2008. OceanaGold should respect the democratic process in El Salvador, abandon its acquisition of Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining, and drop its lawsuit against the government of El Salvador for not having permitted a […]
Updated from Tuesday, March 18th On Sunday, March 16th, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) officially announced Salvador Sanchez Ceren and Oscar Ortiz as the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect of El Salvador. The declaration was signed on to by all five of the TSE magistrates, including the magistrate from the National Republican Alliance party, ARENA, and […]