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 […]
From our volunteer Cori Ring-Martinez’s blog, Learning from Mi Pueblo. Check it out for more updates on Chilama and El Salvador! As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been in El Salvador now for two months, and I have spent the majority of that time in La Libertad, the department south […]
Join CISPES, SHARE, and US-El Salvador Sister Cities in taking action today! Given the US government’s appalling eagerness to rubber stamp the dirty elections in Honduras and recognize the contested right-wing “victor” Juan Hernández, it’s critical that we push for truly free and fair elections – WITHOUT US INTERVENTION – in neighboring El Salvador. Call […]
November 11th, 2013 www.cispes.org Click here to sign and share the petition today to help us collect 1000 signers by the end Monday, Nov 11 to deliver to the Archbishop! This petition will be presented to the Archbishop in the next week. On September 30, Archbishop Escobar of San Salvador abruptly shut down the Archdiocese’s historic human […]