by the Association of Participatory Radios and Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS) July 15th, 2011 Yesterday Nery Jeremias Orellana was killed , director of the Community radio station, Radio Joconguera in the municipality of Candelaria in southern Honduras near the border with El Salvador.The young journalist was also a correspondent of Radio Progreso, located in […]
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh This article appeared in the August 1-8, 2011 edition of The Nation. Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta quickly gathered a few belongings and fled the US-funded Salvadoran military as it burned their houses and fields in an early stage of […]
On July 8th, members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador held a press conference in front of the Honduran Embassy to denounce the arrest of three environmentalists from the Valle de Siria in Honduras, where Goldcorp operates an open-pit mine. Here is the statement members of the Mesa read at the […]
Friday, July 8, 2011- www.defensoresenlinea.com The death threats against Father Fausto Milla, a commissioner with the Commission of Truth, and his assistant Denia Mejia have escalated recently, resulting in their decision to leave the county this Friday. They said good-bye to fellow Hondurans during a press conference at the Committee of Families of the Detained […]
On June 25th, CRIPDES held its 27th Annual National Assembly, at the Hospitalito La Divina Providencia, the site Monseñor Romero´s assassination 31 years ago. The event was attended by over 150 community leaders from all over El Salvador, as well as 18 members of the Cambridge Sister City committee. The event featured a speech by […]
From October 4th to 20th Sister Cities is going to be touring the Midwest with two representatives from our Salvadoran sister organization, CRIPDES. On October 7th and 8th we will hold our National Gathering in Madison, one of our oldest sister cities, and the sight of the February rebellion against conservative attacks on social services […]
On June 28th, President Mauricio Funes released a statement condemning the murder of environmental activist Juan Francisco Duran Ayala and reiterating his commitment not to allow any mining projects to start in El Salvador. Since the murder of Juan Francisco, the fourth anti-mining activist to be assassinated, pressure on the Attorney General and President to […]
On Friday June 24th, over fourty members of the organizations Sister Cities and the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, CISPES, gathered in front of the Attorney General’s office in San Salvador to demand an end to impunity in El Salvador. Members of the two visiting delegations addressed the press, calling on […]
Not Another Mine, Not Another Death! Press Release Thursday June 16, 2011 Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, of the Cabañas Environmental Committee (CAC), was killed on June 4th and his body wasn't identified until 10 days after his disappearance. He is the fourth environmental activist killed in Cabañas. The last time he was seen […]
By the Catholic News Service June 01, 2011 MADRID — Spain’s National Court has invoked a special law to order the arrest and trial of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Five of the six Jesuits were naturalized Salvadorans of Spanish birth. […]