(LEA LA NOTICIA COMPLETA AQUÍ) “You’re going to ask me about the El Mozote massacre, in Morazán, on december 1981”, said “Juan”, hidden behind a wooden screen and through a device that changed his voice. The two former soldiers declare under a pseudonym and their identities are only known by the prosecution and the […]
(Read the original article in spanish here) The Salvadoran population points out two issues that should be a priority for President Nayib Bukele: serving migrant detainees in the southern United States and improving access and drinking water service. This is revealed by the evaluation survey of the first one hundred days of government conducted […]
Jose Apolonio Tobar has been elected as Human Rights Attorney of El Salvador. 57 congresspeople voted for the proposal of ARENA, FMLN and PDC, even when president Bukele asked them not to. The method used for his candidacy has been questioned. He also faces accusations of crimes such as ideological falsehood, prevarication, influence peddling […]
Our friend Rachel Dunlap went recently to the southern border and she decided to share her experience with the migration working group and any of you who might be interested in the human face of the “migrants” discussion. I just returned from a trip to the southern border with a group of students and […]
Fabian Salvioli, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees recently visited El Salvador and asked to remove the name of Col. Jose Domingo Monterrosa from the Infantry Brigade in the department of San Miguel. According to the UN Truth Commision, Monterrosa was the commander of the Atlacatl Batallion that […]
(La versión en español aquí) Last year, on October 2nd, I sat down with Miguel Mejia from SALVAIDE. Then, we talked about april 19th, 1989, the day military forces raided the CRIPDES’ offices and captured him, then-president Isabel Hernandez and others. Our talk has been condensed for clarity. We were in the middle […]
On april 3rd, Ronald Douglas Johnson got closer to be appointed as U.S. Ambassador in El Salvador. Our friend Joan Laurion, from the Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) shares a letter she sent to her congressman urging him to vote against it. You might also use it to reach out to your representative(s). Dear […]
(En Español abajo) As done in the past, CRIPDES and the staff of Sister Cities joined the rally against water privatization initiatives outside the National Association of Private Companies (ANEP, in Spanish), who is trying to integrate a management body making decisions on water distribution and how much they would charge for it. ANEP’s […]
(Written by Rachel Dunlap) On June 20th, 2018, Sister Cities was invited to speak at a rally on family separation by our kind neighbors, NPR-12, after their guest speaker unexpectedly cancelled. Mario and I obliged. It was my first day in the office, and being notoriously bad at public speaking AND Spanish, I was nervous. […]
Testimony to the Bureau of Environmental Protection re chapter 200 mining regulations 2016 Consider the prospect of an unremitting man-made catastrophe whose damaging effects persist longer than human life spans, or the life of a corporation, longer than the tenure of government administrations, but last for centuries. Though man-made, the damage plays out in geologic […]