The Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN) has been busy this week asking for support surrounding the trial of eight water defenders from Guapinol, Honduras. These activists have spent two years in prison on trumped up charges for defending the Guapinol and Sand Pedro rivers from a mining operation led by Honduran mining company Inversiones Los Pinares, […]
After Nayib Bukele made his big announcement of “Bitcoin City”, José Miguel Cruz, the director of research at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University made the following statement: “It’s crazy to think that everything will be done in a few years. In fact, I don’t remember any project in a […]
The US El Salvador Sister City Network has worked in solidarity with the Salvadoran social movement and CRIPDES, a rural campesino organizing federation, since the mid 1980’s. This relationship was forged in a time of war and has deep roots. We have found that our struggle has often been around the defense of the environment, […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) In May, the Legislative Assembly now controlled by the New Ideas party decided to archive the historic proposal that came from civil society to legislate the use of water, as well as the gender identity law and other bills that they considered “obsolete” for the current reality of El Salvador. Last […]
The organizations working in solidarity with the people of El Salvador invite you the following online events towards the upcoming elections of congresspeople in El Salvador: Wednesday 17th: Demands and analysis from the youth towards the upcoming elections Wednesday 24th: The situation of Human Rights and the Environment towards the upcoming elections Wednesday, March 10th: […]
(ORIGINALMENTE PUBLICADO POR YSUCA) Kimberly Vásquez would have turned 8 in August, but her body could not support the jugular catheter for dialysis that she kept for 11 months. Renal failure ended her life on March 23, 2020, in the midst of a pandemic. She was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome at three years of […]
On September 24, President Nayib Bukele confirmed that El Salvador would not sign the Escazú Agreement, considering that some of its articles do not adapt to the Salvadoran reality. Now, the team promoting the treaty, begins meetings with deputies of the Legislative Assembly to seek adherence through this state body. Focos spoke with César Artiga, […]
MOFGA’s 2020 Common Ground Country Fair had to go virtual this year due to the COVID19 pandemic. The Bangor and MOFGA committees rose to the occasion and created a video where they could share what they learned during the December 2019 delegation to El Salvador. Here’s their video: Please check all the other […]
The Escazú Agreement, a watershed 2018 United Nations environmental treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean, could mark a dramatic shift in environmental policy for Central America. Despite the deepening climate change-related degradation of the country’s environment and violence against the environmentalists who come to its defense, though, the Bukele administration hasn’t publicly expressed its […]
(EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) CRIPDES held a press conference where they read the following statement: The Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), celebrating its 36th anniversary, maintains its commitment to watch out for the Rights of unprotected and vulnerable people on the rural areas of the country. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated […]