Stong Interest in Local Organic Foods in El Salvador By the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee Interest in organic farming and gardening and in permaculture is strong in El Salvador. That was one of the principle lessons that four members of the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee learned while visiting our sister organizations and other groups […]
This is the second municipality in the northern department of Chalatenango in El Salvador to call for such a referendum on the issue of mining. In September, San Jose Las Flores declared itself a territory free of mining after 99% of the municipality’s inhabitants voted against mining in their territory. Currently El Salvador awaits the […]
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 […]
We Stand in Solidarity with our Salvadoran Allies Against the US Manipulation of Development Aid San Salvador – June 6, 2014, in front of the US Embassy. This morning, we as solidarity organizations based in the United States- Committees in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), US –El Salvador Sister Cities, […]
COBERTURA EN ESPAÑOL (Unofficial Translation) The United Nations System in El Salvador, at the conclusion of the second round of presidential elections on Sunday, March 9, 2014 : 1) Congratulates the Salvadoran population that exercised in mass their civic right to elect their highest authorities. This overwhelming support, which exceeded 60 % of the electoral […]
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 […]
In anticipation of the electoral observer delegations arriving in the coming weeks, Sister Cities together with four other Solidarity organizations held a press conference today to announce the arrival and mission of the observers, as well as to reiterate the neutrality of the United States in El Salvador´s presidential elections, coming up on February 2nd. […]
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 […]
The Sister Cities-SHARE Foundation Honduras Elections Observation and Human Rights Solidarity delegation came together in El Progreso, a town outside of San Pedro Sula in northwest Honduras, on November 20th. Together, our diverse group of 50 people represented several organizations in El Salvador that work for solidarity and social justice, as well as a number […]
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 […]