Category Archives: Protecting Sovereignty

Salvadoran and International Solidarity Activists Commemorate Honduras Coup

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 […]

94 House Members call on Secretary Clinton to Suspend Assistance to Honduras

March 18, 2012 Michael Ring, for the US-El Salvador Sister Cities Honduras Solidarity Committee Thanks to the advocacy work of people around the country, including many in our own network, 94 Congresspeople signed on to a letter sponsored by Ill. Rep Jan Schakowsky calling for the cutting of US military aid to Honduras because of […]

Honduras: The People Against Empire

August 17, 2010 by Michael Ring The gravitas of Bertha Oliva, the director of COFADEH (The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras), is built on 25 years of tireless work for human rights after having a family member disappeared by the U.S.-backed Honduran national security state.  Since the 1980’s, Bertha and […]

Visits from Honduran Leaders spark Controversy, July 2010

Visits in June and July from leaders representing the Honduran coup d’etat and resistance movement surrounded Honduras’s reincorporation to the Integration System of Central America (SICA) and sparked controversy among Salvadorans. Coup Mastermind Comes to San Salvador On June 22, coup mastermind Roberto Micheletti visited El Salvador, reportedly saying his presence “was not to divide, […]

One Year Anniversary of the Assassination of Anti-Mining Activist Marcelo Rivera

June 24th was the one year anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran anti-mining activist, Marcelo Rivera. In San Isidro, Cabañas, the murders of Rivera and fellow community leaders Dora Alicia Sorto Recinos and Ramiro Rivera – crimes which has so far gone unsolved and unpunished – were commemorated by nearly two hundred people with musical […]

Journalists and Priest recieve threats due to their advocacy: July 29, 2009

The situation for political and social leaders in the Department of Cabanas has worsened since Marcelo Rivera’s disappearance and murder in early July. The week of July 27th, 2009, three to four journalists from Radio Victoria, a local radio station that was reporting on Rivera’s disappearance, received intensifying death threats. On July 28th, Father Luis […]

Anti-Mining Activist Marcelo Rivera Tortured and Murdered: July 15, 2009

Last week, the body of Anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera, who had been missing since June 18th, was found at the bottom of a well in the town of San Isidro. The body showed visible signs of torture. While the local Police and Attorney General’s office have called this a case of common delinquency, community members […]

Sister Cities Election Observation Press Release

March 18, 2009 U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities led an observation mission with the Social Initiative for Democracy for the March 15th, 2009 Presidential Elections in El Salvador. The mission included 24 International and Salvadoran observers and observed in the municipalities of El Puerto, La Libertad; Arcatao Chalatenango; Cinquera, Cabanas; Tecoluca, San Vicente and Suchitoto, Cuscatlán […]

Cinquera, Still Organizing Despite Numerous Attacks: February 27, 2009

The past three months have been tense in the municipality of Cinquera, as community organizers face numerous threats to their daily work. Known as one of the most calm and safe municipalities in the country, it has become a target by a Right Wing campaign to degrade the community and provoke violence.   December 2008: […]

Evangelical Pastor Antonio Bolainez Statement : February 12, 2009

Evangelical Pastor Antonio Bolainez Presents Misinformation to Salvadorans: States that U.S.-El Salvador relations, the well-being of Salvadoran immigrants, and commercial agreements are at risk if the Left wins the March 15th Presidential Elections   February 12, 2009     On Thursday February 12, Salvadoran Newspaper El Diario de Hoy reported that Antonio Bolainez, one of President […]