Sister Cities is excited to welcome three new team members to El Salvador this month! Joining us is one new staff, who will be based in the San Salvador office, and two interns who will be working in Arcatao. Gilberto is grateful for the opportunity to be able to return to El Salvador. His interest […]
U.S. El Salvador Sister Cities is looking for interns from diverse backgrounds to come learn hands-on while working with international solidarity organizing in rural communities of El Salvador. Specific responsibilities will depend on the academic/professional needs of each intern, but in general interns will: Attend events and mobilizations as part of the Salvadoran […]
Dear Mr. Jim Yong Kim, We, the_______ are writing this letter out of concern for the communities of Cabañas and the people of El Salvador, who have expressed collectively and through various mediums over the past several years their resistance to mining projects in El Salvador for health and economic reasons. Nevertheless, PacificRim/OceanaGold is using […]
Agricultural Cooperatives feel our local economies threatened by the intrusion of the United States Government Over 3 years, the agricultural cooperatives have managed to develop the technique of seed production of both corn and beans. This method produces high quality produce which has been certified with the technical and financial support of the Ministry of […]
Since the fraudulent and US-backed presidential elections in November, Hondurans fighting for human rights have suffered even higher levels of repression. This August 11 to August 20th, join US-El Salvador Sister Cities and Witness For Peace Southwest as we accompany our Honduran sisters and brothers in their struggle for a more democratic and just Honduras. Witness for Peace Southwest has a […]
Arlington families travel to ‘sister city’ Teosinte By Beth Soltzberg Arlington fourth-grader Rachel Barglow, fifth-grader Jackson Dray, and seventh-graders Rafi Barglow and Isabella Dray knew they’d have a very different kind of February vacation this year. With family members, they spent the week in Teosinte, the rural El Salvadoran village that has been Arlington’s […]
Elections Update: On Sunday, the TSE formally announced Salvador Sanchez Ceren as president-elect of El Salvador! Nonetheless, ARENA has continued their attacks on the legitimacy of the elections, and continued to demand that the elections be annulled. According to our sources at the TSE, the most recent set of appeals that have been presented to […]
By Sister Cities Volunteer and Elections Observer Cori Ring The weeks leading up to the first round of elections here were intense, full of last minute campaigning and fresh waves of fear spurred by the spiking crime and murder rate in the new year. To hear ARENA tell it, the crime wave was just […]
Sister Cities has brought electoral observation delegations to El Salvador for 20 years since the first presidential elections following the Peace Accords in 1994 to advocate for transparency of the democratic process and to support the communities of our partner organization, CRIPDES. Now, 20 years and 4 presidential terms later, a delegation of 10 individuals […]
December 2013 Greetings Amigos and Amigas of Sister Cities, As some of you may know, in January I will be leaving my post as Sister Cities Co-Coordinator here in El Salvador. For the past four years, I have had the pleasure of working with our committees in Crystal Lake, Binghamton, Arlington, Chicago, Lawrence, Wichita […]