Election of Barack Obama: Time for Hope in El Salvador and Around the World? By Rosa Anaya November 6, 2008 Rosa Anaya is the daughter of Herbert Anaya Sanabria, a Salvadoran human rights lawyer and leader who, on October 26, 1987, was assassinated – gunned down in front of his home in San Salvador in […]
ARENA Presidential Candidate Joins Military Veterans March, Part of a Strategy to Create Fear that Military will Rebel if FMLN Candidate becomes President September 9th, 2008 This Sunday, the Association of Military Veterans (ASVEM), comprised of ex-military members from the Salvadoran Civil War, marched in San Salvador joined by Rodrigo Avila, the presidential candidate for […]
Organizing in El Salvador, August 2008 This update covers recent mining events in El Salvador, including analysis of Pacific Rim’s suspension of operations, continued education and resistance efforts in the communities, and examples of some of the deceptive tactics used by mining companies. Pacific Rim Suspends Operations in El Salvador Recently, Pacific […]
Three years after the first aluminum surveying tags appeared in the hills above San José Las Flores, where, according to the Salvadoran mining code, company representatives have no legal right to be, the organized communities of Chalatenango continue to face the threat posed by international gold mining companies. They also continue to organize against them. […]
Kansan Salvadoran Solidarity Action, Lawrence, Kansas August, 2008 Update In May of 2008, a group of individuals met to discuss the future of relations with our sister community of El Papaturro. We met at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM), the sponsor of student delegations from Lawrence, KS over the past 4 years, site […]
Please Join Us in Accompanying CRIPDES in Promoting Free and Fair Elections in El Salvador in March 2009 Elections Observation Delegation: March 10th-19st To register, click here Registration Deadline: February 10th, 2009 Many say that these are the most important elections in Salvadoran history · We will meet with a number of civic and […]
Join us in advocating for free and fair elections in El Salvador With the presidential elections coming up next March and the municipal elections in January, intensity is rising in El Salvador. Mauricio Funes, the presidential candidate for the FMLN, is leading Rodrigo Avila of the right wing party ARENA by as much as 15% […]
U.S Intervention in the 2009 Salvadoran Elections: Will history repeat itself? August, 2008 As El Salvador prepares for the March 2009 presidential elections, memories of U.S. intervention in the country have not been forgotten. From the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Reagan administration sent to the Salvadoran military to suppress the guerrilla forces […]
Killing of Community Leader in Huisisilapa another on the List of Unsolved Homicides Dear Friends, We write you with more sad news of the shooting of Rafaela Hernández Delgado of the CRIPDES repopulated community of Huisisilapa last Thursday the 24th of July. Rafaela was twenty-seven years old, a community leader, and the wife of […]
Contact: Emily Carpenter sistercities@gmail.com 514.664.1074×103 (Canada) Liana Dalton lndalton@gmail.com 608.206.4965 Recently Acquitted Political Prisoner Violently Assassinated Salvadoran and International Groups Call for Investigation into Escalating Political Killings in El Salvador June 10, 2008 – Over 100 international organizations have joined a coalition of over 40 Salvadoran organizations, calling for an investigation of […]