Neoliberal Politics in Central America: The U.S. and the Privatization of El Salvador January 13, 2013 By Eric Draitser, Counterpunch.org As much of Latin America braces itself for the possibility of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death, observers around the world would do well to note the stark contrasts that exist within the region. On the […]
Click HERE to support Sister Cities’ work in defense of human rights work by making a secure online donation or to becoming a monthly sustainer. Dear Friends, Monday, December 10th, marked International Human Rights Day. A day that Sister Cities tries to honor 365 days a year with its work for human rights in […]
December 11th, 2012, www.cispes.org As the keynote speaker at an October 29 breakfast with the Salvadoran Construction Chamber, US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte claimed that any renewal of the Millennium Challenge Fund (FOMILENIO), a US development aid program, would be dependent upon the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly’s approval of a proposed Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Law. […]
December 10th, 2012 By Alexandra Early (source- www.esnomineria.blogspot.com) The conference: "Metallic Mining: Threats to Life and Human Rights in El Salvador" was held on Wednesday in San Salvador with the objective of calling for urgent action to curb the excesses of toxic mining. Speakers included environmentalists and economists who discussed the environmental, economic and institutional […]
November 21th, 2012 by Alexandra Early On November 18th, Hondurans came out in droves to vote for their preferred parties in the country´s first primary elections since the formation of a new left-wing party, LIBRE. The Liberation and Re-foundation Party, LIBRE, was formed with the help of the Honduran National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) […]
On November 20, twenty-four organizations from the U.S. and Canada sent a letter to the San Salvador City Council and to the Office of the President of El Salvador in which they denounced and demanded justice in the case of violent evictions of vendors executed by the Mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano. The page […]
From October 5th to 17th, Sister Cities’s traveled up and down the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine with CRIPDES’s leader Zulma Hernandez who shared the challenges, successes and lessons of the Salvadoran social movement . This year, the National Gathering was hosted by the Philadelphia committee on October 6th-7th, where members of the […]
November 11th, 2012, by Alexandra Early and Janice Morrill On October 20th, hundreds of people marched in Cabañas, El Salvador to voice their opposition to the proposed gold mining project of Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining company. The anti-mining movement in El Salvador has been growing over the past decade and in 2007, under pressure […]
Donate Now to Make this Election Observation Delegation Possible! Support Sister Cities in our effort to bring representatives of the Salvadoran social movement to support their Honduran brothers and sisters and serve as international observers during Honduras’ primary election on November 18th, when supporters of LIBRE, the party of the nonviolent National Front for Popular […]
CounterPunch Magazine: Central America’s Newest “Death Squad Democracy” September 14, 2012 by Andy Thayer, part of the September La Voz de los de Abajo delegation My first day in Honduras last week was also my first in a truly “Third World” country, though from what I’ve seen, portions of Russia and the Appalachians could give […]