(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) As previously reported, the CRIPDES SUR LA LIBERTAD team has requested the support from donors and partner organizations to aid families that did not receive $ 300 from the government. Today they share photos (and video) of the supplies delivery in El Charcón, Chilama and the El Faro community. The government […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) As previously reported, the CRIPDES San Vicente team has continued to work to help families in the area during the COVID19 pandemic. The acting coordinator, Marixa Amaya, shares that on Tuesday and Wednesday food was distributed among some families identified in the census made by the CRIPDES in coordination with local […]
Chalatenango has reported its first 3 cases of coronavirus. It used to be the only department with no cases. All of them live in the municipality of Nueva Concepcion. Amid these challenges, Juana Morales, from the CCR, keeps working with the groups of women. Through whatsapp they keep encouraging each other to carry on the […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Until April 21, Chalatenango is the only department with no positive cases of CORONAVIRUS. Since quarantine was decreed on March 21, 90% of the population has respected it, staying home, and going out only for necessary food or health issues. Due to the bonus that the government assigned to low-income families, […]
Last Friday, president Nayib Bukele established a sanitary cordon in La Libertad. People were not allowed to leave their houses not even to purchase food. This was criticized by several people: The lawyer and former Minister of Security, Francisco Bertrand Galindo, wrote that if the siege in La Libertad is true, it is “illegal, […]
Call your representative to demand the release of asylum seekers from detention. Unlike many other countries, the US puts people in prison when they come to the border seeking safety. Now these crowded prisons could lead to disease and the deaths of thousands of people waiting to be processed by Immigration. This is an injustice! […]
Around 1 AM this morning the Legislative Assembly ended their session. There were plans to approve a new decree for the current pandemic after many Human Rights abuses have been reported at national and international level. #Teleprensa33 | #ElSalvadorEnCuarentena Distintas organizaciones sociales presentaron un comunicado, dirigido hacia el presidente @nayibbukele y donde le hacen […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The members of the Guajoyo security committee who were arrested on Saturday, April 11, are now free. The young men were on their shifts at the entrance of the community, controlling access and doing sanitation work when they were captured by the police. All group members work voluntarily rotating during part […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Today the Legislative Assembly must analyze whether the restriction of rights during the pandemic is extended, as requested by President Nayib Bukele. Last Sunday they decided to extend it just for four days. The journalist Fernando Romero (whom the president previously excluded from an event) explains the reforms that various groups […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The vice president of the community board (JD) in Chilama 2, Juan Menjivar, tells us that the community is paralyzed during this quarantine. Some inhabitants received the $300 USD bonus from the government, but not all of them. People that usually go out to sell vegetables are staying home but are getting […]