March 1, 2007 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #4 Introduction: This is the fourth in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera. The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has decided to […]
April 25, 2007 By Sebastian Darío Cabañas – More than one thousand people from the departments of Chalatenango, Cabañas, and Cuscaltán, flooded the properties of the Canadian Pacific Rim Mining company yesterday in protest of mining operations in their communities. From Chalatenango alone truckloads of more than eight hundred people of the Association of […]
Land Transference Struggle CRIPDES San Vicente continues to support the legalization of properties as part of the Land Transference Act which came out of the 1992 Peace Accords. Land was promised through the Salvadoran Institution for Land Transference (ISTA) to ex-combatants from both sides as part of the negotiated accord, in recognition that in large […]
2007 Project: Community of Chilama, La Libertad. Sister City: Crystal Lake, Illinois. The community calls this project: Organization and agriculture through solidarity with the Community of Chilama Objective 1: Help provide some of the basic food needs for the families of the community of Chilama. Objective 2: Promote a culture of community work […]
February 2, 2007 PROGRESO Monthly Update #1 Introduction This document is the first in a series of monthly updates on the work of the PROGRESO, the regional branch of CRIPDES, and documenting the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Suchitoto. PROGRESO, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has decided to […]
December 4, 2006 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #2 Introduction: This is the second in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera. The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has decided to […]
This hand-picked and processed coffee from along the cool pine-shaded slopes of the Chalatenango province of El Salvador, near the Honduras border. It arrives to your cup through a special collaboration between the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), Madison-based Just Coffee and the farming families of the Ereguán Coffee Collective. Shared Values The […]