The situation for political and social leaders in the Department of Cabanas has worsened since Marcelo Rivera’s disappearance and murder in early July. The week of July 27th, 2009, three to four journalists from Radio Victoria, a local radio station that was reporting on Rivera’s disappearance, received intensifying death threats. On July 28th, Father Luis […]
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Last week, the body of Anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera, who had been missing since June 18th, was found at the bottom of a well in the town of San Isidro. The body showed visible signs of torture. While the local Police and Attorney General’s office have called this a case of common delinquency, community members […]
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Written by Cassie Alley Member of the Bangor-Carasque Sister Cities Committee When I was 17 years old, I went through an experience that changed me profoundly. On October 28th, 2006, I became a citizen of the world, and began to assume the responsibilities that come with being a member of a world community. For […]
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Marcelo Rivera, Community leader and Anti-Mining activist, Disappeared since June 18th Update, July 2: Gustavo Marcelo Rivera disappeared the afternoon of June 18, 2009, in San Isidro, Cabanas. A body has been found that is suspected to be Marcelo’s body. DNA tests are currently underway to determine if the body is, indeed, Marcelo’s. Below is […]
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Withstanding police and military repression, Hondurans have continued constant protest against the coup which expelled President Manuel Zelaya last Sunday. Thousands of Hondurans have begun to travel on foot to Tegucigalpa to be present in support of Zelaya when he returns to the country this Saturday. Since Manuel Zelaya was removed from his house by […]
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CRIPDES is receiving information daily from their colleagues in the Honduran social movement, who have been constantly moving around the country because of persecution. As a demonstration of their support for the Salvadoran people, CRIPDES and the MPR-12 are organizing hundreds of people to march at two areas of the Honduran border of El Salvador, […]
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Message from CRIPDES National Board Companeros and Companeras of the CRIPDES board, delegates from the five regions of CRIPDES, Companeros from popular organizations and friends from solidarity and cooperation organizations, please receive the most fraternal and communal greeting from the Association for the Development of El Salvador CRIPDES. In July 2009, CRIPDES celebrates 25 […]
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Speech by Miriam Ayala, President of the CCR Please receive a fraternal greeting of solidarity from the Directive Board of the CCR. Greetings to the Presidents, Leaders, Youth, Professors, Veterans, and people representing the different national and international institutions that works hand in hand with the CCR for the development of our communities. Before […]
By Michelle Petrotta, SHARE Foundation, January 2009 Updated by Jan Morrill, U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, June 2009 PACIFIC RIM MINING CORP. FILES SUIT AGAINST SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT On Tuesday, December 9, 2008, Pacific Rim Mining Corporation, a Vancouver based mining company, issued a press release announcing that the company has filed a Notice of Intent […]
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Pacific Rim Officially Files Suit Against Salvadoran Government Canadian mining company Pacific Rim mining Corp. has officially filed suit against the Salvadoran government in an international trade tribunal. After filing a Notice of Intent of Arbitration (NOI) in December of 2008, the company presented its claim to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes […]