The entire USESSC team wants to thank you for your support to our 2021 midyear fundraising effort. Thanks to you, we successfully raised $10,000 to support CRIPDES’ women’s program and $1,000 to support the TPS Alliance. Your donations amounted to $14,000 dollars that have enabled us to contribute to the mobilization of participants […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Judge Jorge Guzmán denounced the swearing in of the substitute judges and magistrates, which took place over the weekend and called it “unconstitutional.” The event took place despite the precautionary measures that suspended the application of the reforms issued by the assembly controlled by New Ideas, which seek to dismiss judges […]
We are inviting you to join Sister Cities’ Urgent Action Network to help our network effectively stand with people fighting for their rights and dignity and justice in El Salvador, Mesoamerica and at the US-Mexico border. By signing up, you can choose to have your name included on statements Sister Cities sends to key stakeholders […]
Although yesterday El Salvador was supposed to celebrate the bicentennial of independence, Salvadorans decided to march for another reason: to protest against the latest decisions of the Bukele administration that keep undermining the rule of the Law, such as the decision of the newly-appointed Supreme Court to allow the reelection of the president, the decision […]
El periódico británico THE GUARDIAN publicó el artículo que traducimos a continuación: Litha María de Los Ángeles pone dos pupusas rellenas de queso en la plancha. Con un clic de la cámara en el código QR, recibe su pago: cuatrocientas milésimas de un Bitcoin. Luego, cuando la lluvia golpea el techo de lámina y […]
El Faro recently published a report on the investigation the deposed General Attorney was conducting on several officials, including Osiris Luna, for the conversations he facilitated among gang leaders inside maximum security prisons. President Bukele once again reacted via Twitter in a dismissive way, but amid the backlash on social media, he decided to focus […]
Mike Ring sr. passed away last Saturday in his sleep. He and recently deceased Jim Wallace took part years ago on the delegation in support of the 13 people arrested during Tony Saca’s administration for protesting against the initiatives of water privatization. Dennis Chinoy took part on that delegation as well and he wrote the […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) We’re sad to inform that Jim Wallace, a founding member of the Cambridge committee, passed away on July 31st, 2021. We thought that a good way to honor him was to share this story of his: “In the late 1980s I was part of a medical assistance delegation to San Jose […]
ELSALVADOR.COM reports: The Second Magistrate’s court of San Salvador ordered today that five former FMLN officials remain in jail while the judicial process against them reaches the investigation stage. From the moment of the arrests, leaders of the FMLN have questioned the process followed by the authorities and the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the arrests of […]
The US El Salvador Sister City Network has worked in solidarity with the Salvadoran social movement and CRIPDES, a rural campesino organizing federation, since the mid 1980’s. This relationship was forged in a time of war and has deep roots. We have found that our struggle has often been around the defense of the environment, […]