Summary from the 2016 National Gathering Cambridge, MA Friday, October 7 Participants from out of town arrived Friday in time for a potluck dinner at Jim Wallace’s home in Cambridge. The Cambridge and Arlington committees did a wonderful job at coordinating lodging and transportation for everybody who came in from out of town. Saturday October […]
Category Archives: Education
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Dec
Dec
When you give to US El Salvador Sister Cities your money goes a long way!!! Because we are a grassroots organization, we work like an anthill — lots of workers getting the work done! That means our operating expenses are exceptionally low, and the majority of our budget goes to Salvadoran communities and the social […]
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Feb
Feb
By Catie Johnston The past year has been an interesting time for those of us who follow US foreign policy with Latin America. Last summer´s spike in child migrants from countries of the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) led to media and political coverage of the area unprecedented since the Central American […]
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Nov
Nov
The Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES and U.S.- El Salvador Sister Cities take a position on President Obama´s executive action on immigration.
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Jun
Jun
The MCC Board approved a second compact with El Salvador nine months ago, but its signing and entry into force have been delayed and new conditions demanded by the Obama administration that are inconsistent with the country’s development plan and with general MCC practice. The MCC Board approved a $277 million compact for El […]
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May
May
Taken from John Perry´s Article on May 20, 2014. Read the full article here Pacific Rim (acquired last year by OceanaGold), owns a mine in El Dorado, El Salvador. It has met massive community opposition over the past five years. This has led to intimidation and assassinations; a 2010 report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature […]
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Mar
Mar
On Wednesday, March 26th at 8:30pm CST US-El Salvador Sister Cities with Witness for Peace Southwest will host a live video webinar to report from El Salvador on the March Presidential elections, with participation from Sister Cities staff and key leaders of the MPR-12 (Popular Resistance Movement). Marcos, Antonia, and Abel of the MPR-12 will […]
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Jan
Jan
With El Salvador’s second round of presidential elections just one week away, the coalition of solidarity organizations has created a website with up-to-the-moment news about the electoral context and updates from observation sites on voting day. Sister Cities is one of the organiozations that will be sending news this week and throughout the day on […]
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Jan
Jan
By Cori Ring, Sister Cities Volunteer For the United States government, Central America remains a key strategic region for a variety of factors, including US business interests couched in terms of ¨progress and development¨ and the continuing ¨War on Drugs¨ that provides a convenient and important justification for continued US military aid to countries […]
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May
May
Obama and the Militarization of the “Drug War” in Mexico and Central America May 7th, 2013 Written by Alex Main for the Center for Economic and Policy Research During his trip last week to Mexico and Costa Rica, President Obama sought to down play the U.S.’s security agenda in the region, emphasizing trade relations, […]