San Salvador–Busloads of people surrounded the Salvador del Mundo monument in front of the Canadian Embassy in San Salvador today to protest the Canadian Government’s role Central American mining, and specifically in the 29 mining projects currently active in El Salvador.The event was the culmination of the Central American Alliance against Metallic Mining conference held […]
Workers Day News, May 2007
May 7, 2007 CRIPDES Sur Monthly Update #2 Introduction: This document is the first in a series of monthly updates on the work of the CRIPDES Sur, the regional branch of CRIPDES in La Libertad, and documenting the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in the work in the region. CRIPDES Sur, with […]
April 30, 2007 PROGRESO Monthly Update #1 Introduction: This document is the second in a series of monthly updates on the work of the PROGRESO, the regional branch of CRIPDES, and documenting the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Suchitoto. PROGRESO, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has decided to share […]
April 27, 2007 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #5 Introduction: This is the fifth in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera. The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, […]
March 1, 2007 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #4 Introduction: This is the fourth in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera. The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has decided to […]
April 25, 2007 By Sebastian Darío Cabañas – More than one thousand people from the departments of Chalatenango, Cabañas, and Cuscaltán, flooded the properties of the Canadian Pacific Rim Mining company yesterday in protest of mining operations in their communities. From Chalatenango alone truckloads of more than eight hundred people of the Association of […]
Land Transference Struggle CRIPDES San Vicente continues to support the legalization of properties as part of the Land Transference Act which came out of the 1992 Peace Accords. Land was promised through the Salvadoran Institution for Land Transference (ISTA) to ex-combatants from both sides as part of the negotiated accord, in recognition that in large […]
History The Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango-CCR was founded in June of 1987 during the armed conflict in El Salvador, as an answer to the need to repopulate the communities of the North-eastern part of Chalatenango that had been destroyed by the armed conflict. Thanks to the work of the CCR the […]
By Jesse Kates-Chinoy Introduction: October, 2006: The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly approves decree #108, the “Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism.” The law is made public and applicable on November 16, 2006. The law re-writes several articles of the Salvadoran Penal Code, and creates several new categories of felonies. Most all of the acts that […]