The annual CRIPDES Assembly took place on June 26th at the historic Divina Providencia Hospital complex where Monseñor Romero lived until his murder in 1990. More than 250 community leaders from San Vicente, Chalatenango, La Libertad, Northern San Salvador, Cabanas and Cuscatlán attended the assembly. The national junta directiva of CRIPDES opened the assembly by […]
Press Release of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining Last Thursday, July 1st, the Attorney General of the Republic of El Salvador, through the Specialized Department Against Organized Crime (DECO) and the Sub directorate of Investigations of the National Civil Police captured a dozen suspects involved in the murders of the environmentalists Ramiro Rivera Gómez […]
Pac Rim Faces Off with the Government of El Salvador After months of waiting, arbitration in the Pacific Rim case officially began in Washington D.C. last month. On May 31st and June 1st lawyers representing Pac Rim Cayman and the Salvadoran government went head to head before a tribunal of three international arbitrators. The case […]
MOFGA’s El Salvador Sistering Committee maintains a relationship between MOFGA (the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) and two Salvadoran grassroots organizations—CCR and CORDES—working toward sustainable agriculture. The committee explores issues such as organic certification, free trade, marketing, etc., that affect farmers in both countries. Several delegations from Maine have visited El Salvador, and delegates […]
June 24th was the one year anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran anti-mining activist, Marcelo Rivera. In San Isidro, Cabañas, the murders of Rivera and fellow community leaders Dora Alicia Sorto Recinos and Ramiro Rivera – crimes which has so far gone unsolved and unpunished – were commemorated by nearly two hundred people with musical […]
by Gabriel Zucker Additional reporting by David Lee Originally Published in the June 2010 volume of Monthly Review “Ultimately,” said Miguel Rivera, a soft-spoken man in his late 20s, “we are a family that has dedicated ourselves to helping the people with their needs and defending their rights. But in the process of denouncing […]
El Salvador has been in a state of emergency since Saturday May 29th. What started out as a surprisingly rainy day on Wednesday turned into five days of heavy rain, flooding and landslides that have left many parts of the country severely damaged. CRIPDES has been working full time to help evacuate and house families […]
Honduras: Lobo Rewards Mining Porfirio Lobo appears smiling, posing together with the Canadian ambassador, Neil Reeder, and the mining businessmen, among them Patrick Docuney, executive director of Aura Mineral Inc. and David M. Petroff, a recognized investor of extractive mining, textile sweatshops and other areas. The photograph, on the official web site of the Honduran […]
During the month of April, the state of Arizona passed a draconian law that threatens the civil rights of all and sets the stage for a hostile environment of racial profiling and harassment of anyone suspected of being in the United States without documentation of their legal status in the country. One aspect of the […]
On Wednesday, April 14 in San Salvador, representatives of community organizations, indigenous communities and environmentalists from Mexico and Central America participated in an International Forum entitled: Mining Companies in Mesoamerica “Sustainable Development or a Threat to Sovereignty?.” Out of the agreements reached at the International Forum we make the following declaration: Companies from Canada […]