(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) “The U.S. detained and expelled five times more Salvadorans in 2021 than in 2020,” ElSalvador.com reported earlier this year. Not even the COVID pandemic stopped the flow of people into the United States. The migrations project funded by Cornell and with the participation of a team from the University of Ithaca […]
The Share Foundation and U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities (USESSC) would like to invite you to our upcoming webinar: Rural youth and the state of exception in El Salvador We will have the participation of three young persons from the regions of UCRES, La Libertad and Chalatenango. They will share what the state of exception […]
Dado el temor que sienten muchas personas, especialmente jóvenes, en las zonas rurales en las que trabaja CRIPDES, hemos creado esta compilación de recursos para facilitarles el reporte de violaciones a Derechos Humanos que puedan sufrir durante la extensión del régimen de excepción implementado por el gobierno salvadoreño. TELÉFONOS PROCURADURÍA PARA LA DEFENSA DE […]
On Thursday April 28th, during a press conference, the Minister of Labor said that May 1st marchers will be relatives, collaborators or financiers of criminal groups or gangs of El Salvador.
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) After the Nayib Bukele administration declared a state of emergency on March 27 in response to the rise in homicides over a weekend, several human rights violations have been reported. In addition to the unjustified raid on PROCOMES yesterday (April 20) and the reports of arrest “quotas” imposed on police officers […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) El Salvador: A state of emergency indeed With a new state of emergency, any residual hint of civil liberties has been suspended in ‘the world’s coolest dictatorship’. Belen Fernandez Contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. Published On 6 Apr 20226 Apr 2022 Read post on Al Jazeera News Here On Saturday, March 26, […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The Salvadoran government headed by Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency on March 27, 2022 after 87 murders took place throughout El Salvador. The situation has called into question the effectiveness of the famous Territorial Control Plan, whose phases have never been fully explained to the population. The president pressured […]
(READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN HERE) Nuestros amigos del comité de MOFGA mantienen una lucha contra el uso de sustancias conocidas como PFAS. Estos se han utilizado ampliamente desde la década de 1950 en productos que van desde el envasado de alimentos hasta la espuma contra incendios. Las PFAS se han reconocido […]
(ORIGINALMENTE PUBLICADO POR CARLOS DADA EN EL FARO) On March 30, 1980, Palm Sunday, Romero made his last trip to the Cathedral. His body, in a gray coffin trimmed with silver, was carried in procession from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart by a dozen young priests and accompanied by bishops from across the […]
You’re invited to this webinar where we will talk about the context leading to the phenomena of migration from El Salvador. We will also have guests from a rural community in San Vicente who will provide their own perspective of the situation. Guest speakers: Zulma Tobar and Mario Guevara, coordinators of Sister Cities in El […]