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 […]
On Thursday, May 6th, the MPR-12 member organization The Confederation of Federations of the Salvadoran Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS), celebrated 34 years since the first agrarian reform was approved and implemented in El Salvador. The following is a press release breifly detailing the history of the agrarian reform, the challenges that the Salvadoran agricultural cooperatives have […]
Elections Update: On Sunday, the TSE formally announced Salvador Sanchez Ceren as president-elect of El Salvador! Nonetheless, ARENA has continued their attacks on the legitimacy of the elections, and continued to demand that the elections be annulled. According to our sources at the TSE, the most recent set of appeals that have been presented to […]
On Wednesday, March 26th at 8:30pm CST US-El Salvador Sister Cities with Witness for Peace Southwest will host a live video webinar to report from El Salvador on the March Presidential elections, with participation from Sister Cities staff and key leaders of the MPR-12 (Popular Resistance Movement). Marcos, Antonia, and Abel of the MPR-12 will […]
Given the electoral events of March 9, 2014: The Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES, hereby congratulates the Salvadoran people for exemplary behavior demonstrated during the civic party March 9, 2014, when we celebrated the presidential elections in our country . This civic celebration affirms, once again, the democratic commitment of our people […]
The following information is a compilation of Salvadoran news reports and observations from our allied organizations: Yesterday, Tuesday March 11th, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal began a process of revising the 21 forms that could not be counted in the Tribunal’s preliminary results, which showed the FMLN ahead of ARENA by 6, 634 votes (50.11% vs. […]