On July 4th,the Movement of Popular Resistance (MPR-12) and Confederation of the Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS) held a rally and press conference in front the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly demanding the assembly pass a Food Sovereignty Law with a gender equality focus. The MPR-12 is a coalition conformed unions, organizations of farmers and poor urban folks and […]
Today, June 28th, 2013 about 125 folks from the Movement of Popular Resistance and solidarity organizations gathered outside the Honduran embassy in San Salvador to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the military coup in Honduras and to demand that the U.S. government cut military aid to Honduras, which has been increasing each year since the […]
The Fight for Life and Land in the Aguan Valley featuring Juan Lorenzo Cruz, leader of the campesino movement in the Aguan Valley, Honduras Wednesday June 26, 2013 8:30 PM EST (5:30pm PST, 7:30pm CT) Don Lorenzo is a campesino Leader from the Honduran Aguan Valley currently living in El Salvador as a political refugee. […]
By Catie Johnston Austin Sister Cities Volunteer in San Vicente Delegations are at the heart of what Sister Cities is all about: they are the incarnation of the solidarity relationships that make things like projects, advocacy, and development possible. In April and May, our sister communities in El Salvador received not one, not two, […]
January 28th– February 5th, 2014: Election Observation in El Salvador Join our delegation to accompany the CRIPDES communities during the February 2nd, 2014 presidential elections. Participating in the Election Observation Delegation is an exciting way to learn about the Salvadoran political process, respond to the request for observers from our partners, accompany the rural communities and […]
www.Cispes.org May 17, 2013 Today, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court ruled that the appointments of David Munguía Payés as Minister of Public Security and Justice, and Francisco Ramón Salinas as Director of the National Civil Police (PNC), violated the Constitution of El Salvador. Payés and Salinas are both former military generals who retired […]
From May 10th to 13th, thirty activists from 12 different countries, including Canada, the U.S., Germany, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras, participated in a fact finding mission in El Salvador to investigate the effects of gold mining on the environment, public health and social cohesion. The delegation was organized by the National Rountable Against Mining […]
Obama and the Militarization of the “Drug War” in Mexico and Central America May 7th, 2013 Written by Alex Main for the Center for Economic and Policy Research During his trip last week to Mexico and Costa Rica, President Obama sought to down play the U.S.’s security agenda in the region, emphasizing trade relations, […]
US Unions Join May Day March in El Salvador to Reject US Privatization Push www.Cispes.org SAN SALVADOR – An estimated 80,000 Salvadorans representing a wide array of labor organizations, university students, women’s organizations and anti-mining activists, among others, as well as the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party, took to the streets […]
On Wednesday April 4th, the communities and organizations that make up the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining held a press conference rejecting the actions of the company Pacific Rim, which recently increased it´s lawsuit against El Salvador from $105 million dollars to $300 million. The Mesa declared: “This lawsuit is an attempt to undermine the […]