Sign a Petition to Stop the Neoliberal Model Cities Project from Moving Forward in Honduras Defend the Sovereignty of Honduras and the Culture and Territory of the Garifuna People! Click here to sign a petition asking the Supreme Court of Honduras to declare the Special Development Regions (RED) Law Unconstitutional. In 2010, the government […]
<<Also see news about the Canadian mining company Goldcorp's efforts to influence Guatemalan laws below>> Mining for Gold: A “Pact with the Devil”? The economic crisis—and the rising price of gold—have spurred North American firms to reopen mines and attack environmental regulations. Here’s what we can learn from El Salvador’s moratorium on new mining permits. […]
Source: School of the Americas Watch and the Honduras Solidarity Network August 24, 2012 Over the last few weeks, thousands of you around the country have sent messages to your members of Congress, urging them to ask U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to suspend U.S. assistance to the Honduran military and police, given the […]
In October 2012, Sister Cities will be hitting the road on our East Coast speaking tour. We will be going all the way from Pennsylvania to Maine along with Zulma Hernandez, a dynamic young CRIPDES organizer with years of experience in youth, political and women´s organizing. Our tour starts at the Sister Cities National Gathering […]
August 10th, 2012 Source-stopesmining.org On August 7th, the Ministry of the Environment (MARN) and the Ministry of the Economy (MINEC) presented a bill to the Legislative Assembly that would temporary suspend all mining activity in El Salvador. The bill states that there are not the necessary conditions for mining in El Salvador. If passed, the suspension […]
The results of water samples taken by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), which were collected two thousand five hundred meters from the bed of the San Sebastian River, in the area of the hamlet of El Comercio in Santa Rosa de Lima, confirmed the presence of cyanide and iron, among other […]
Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities A sustainable development and friendship project with El Salvador May 6, 2012 Immigration Taskforce for Central America c/o Jose Artiga SHARE Foundation 2425 College Drive Berkeley, CA 94704 Dear Immigration Taskforce for Central America: This letter is submitted to express our support for the campaign to secure legal permanent residency […]
Permanent Residency Now for Central Americans with Temporary Protective Status! On March 8th, Share, Centro Romero of Chicago, Causa Oregon, and CRIPDES held a press conference and rally to launch the Residency Now campaign in El Salvador. The Residency Now campaign is aimed at getting Permanent Residency status for the approximately 64,000 Hondurans, 212,000 Salvadorans, […]
On June 27th, about two hundred people from around El Salvador, gathered in front of the Honduran embassy in San Salvador to denounce the coup in Honduras and demand an end to U.S. support for militarization in Latin America. After the rally and press conference in front of the embassy, protesters marched down to the […]
June 6, 2012 As the clock ticked towards five pm on Friday, June 1st, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) released its ruling in the Pacific Rim vs. the Government of El Salvador case. The ICSID tribunal, a wing of the World Bank, ruled that it did not have jurisdiction under Central […]