Statement of the U.S.- El Salvador Sister Cities Network regarding the arrest and imprisonment of four member of CRIPDES and nine community members in the Department of Cuscatlán on July 2, 2007 July 14, 2007 U.S. – El Salvador Sister Cities represents twenty two communities and organizations in the United States which have sistering relationships […]
Press Release: Recently Acquitted Political Prisoner Assassinated. June 10, 2008. Salvadoran and International Groups Call for Investigation into Escalating Political Killings in El Salvador Public Statement re: Political Assassinations in El Salvador. June 2, 2008. Statement with more than 200 signers, denouncing killing of Hector Ventura and other politically motivated killings in El […]
We learned late Wednesday night that the 13 people arrested last Monday, July 2, including CRIPDES leaders and community members, are now being charged with “Aggravated Damages, Acts of Terrorism and Injuring a Police Officer.” They will be tried under the new Anti-Terrorism Law, (read the specifics here) created by the Salvadoran government and President […]
CRIPDES LEADERS STILL BEING HELD IN JAIL, DETAILS ON REPRESSION OF SUCHITOTO PROTEST We want to share more information on the violent and arbitrary arrest and detention of CRIPDES leaders travelling to a demonstration this morning, and details of repression against protesters in the municipality of Suchitoto. The CRIPDES leaders arrested were taken […]
San Salvador–Busloads of people surrounded the Salvador del Mundo monument in front of the Canadian Embassy in San Salvador today to protest the Canadian Government’s role Central American mining, and specifically in the 29 mining projects currently active in El Salvador.The event was the culmination of the Central American Alliance against Metallic Mining conference held […]
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 […]