On Monday, April 28, 2014, Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) began circulating a sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter in the U.S. House of Representatives to Secretary of State John Kerry addressing Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Honduras. The letter states that “egregious violations of human rights continue” almost 5 years after the coup. It raises concerns about militarization of the […]
Edith Portillo is the Secretary of the CRIPDES National Board of Directors, works as the Coordinator of Women’s programs for CRIPDES San Vicente, and is part of the leadership of the National Roundtable of Rural Women. She started working with CRIPDES in 1999, and considers herself the fruit of the work of CRIPDES in rural […]
On Wednesday, March 26th, 11 young community leaders, including 2 Sister City scholarship students – Geovanni and Emerson – were sentenced to 4 years in prison for “illicit organization,” which is another way of accusing them of being gang members. While Geovany and Emerson where well known within Sister Cities and other international organizations because of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today, Tuesday December 17th, readers of one of the largest newspapers in El Salvador, La Prensa Grafica, may have been surprised to see a unique headline-“United States Neutral in 2014 Elections“. The headline and the two-full pages of coverage on the 2nd and 3rd pages of the newspaper were a result of the effort of […]
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 […]
October 8th, 2013 Milwaukee Magazine In the end, salad dressing was not poured onto the sidewalk. Steve Watrous, a sociology instructor at MATC’s Downtown campus and one of the activists who organized Monday’s protest outside the law office of Machulak, Robertson and Sodos, couldn’t remember the exact variety demonstrators had selected – Newman’s Own, something with garlic. What […]
Today, June 28th, 2013 about 125 folks from the Movement of Popular Resistance and solidarity organizations gathered outside the Honduran embassy in San Salvador to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the military coup in Honduras and to demand that the U.S. government cut military aid to Honduras, which has been increasing each year since the […]
On Sunday January 13th, 2013, Erik Vidal Martinez, a well know human rights defender and gay rights activist was assaulted and arrested by police while defending while defending patrons from police harassment at an LGBT bar in Tegucigalpa. Erick was released but his safety could be in danger because Honduran police are known for retaliation and […]