HONDURAS. Since June of 2009, Gladys Lanza, the Coordinator of the Woman’s Movement for Peace Visitación Padilla has received a series of threats and abuses. The last offense began on July 14th 2010, when Visitación Padilla issued a press release condemning the militarization. The threats that continued accompanied by a series of emails written to […]
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 […]
The National Roundtable Against Mineral Mining San Salvador, December 27 2009 The assassinations of those opposing mining projects continue. The environmentalist Dora Alicia Sorto Rodriguez, was assassinated yesterday at 3:30 in the afternoon, in the town of Trinidad in Sensuntepeque (Cabañas). This crime occurred only a week after the murder of Ramiro Rivera Gomez, another […]
Contact: Emily Carpenter sistercities@gmail.com 514.664.1074×103 (Canada) Liana Dalton lndalton@gmail.com 608.206.4965 Recently Acquitted Political Prisoner Violently Assassinated Salvadoran and International Groups Call for Investigation into Escalating Political Killings in El Salvador June 10, 2008 – Over 100 international organizations have joined a coalition of over 40 Salvadoran organizations, calling for an investigation of […]
Turning ‘communists’ into ‘terrorists’ in El Salvador August 2, 2007 By Dennis Chinoy Back in the eighties, when the U.S. armed and funded the Salvadoran military to fight a proxy war against communism, delegations of visiting Americans to the embassy were commonplace. Appalled at the latest round of human rights abuses perpetrated by the army […]
Public Disorder Reforms Passed amidst much Debate August 18, 2007 Amidst politically polarized and often heated debate, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly passed a reform to Article 348 of the Penal Code on Thursday, increasing jail time for public disorder for up to 8 years. Likewise, the Assembly approved reforms to Article 294 of the Penal […]
Archbishop Romero at Ninety: “Cease the Repression” August 15, 2007 In honor of Archbishop Romero’s birthday today, hundreds gathered this morning in San Salvador in commemoration of the Archbishop. The protesters, members of the Salvadoran social movement and civil society, are once again calling for an end to repression, 27 years after Romero made […]
The following text is a translation of the video covering the events of July 2 that is available in two parts here (Part 1) and here (part 2). The translation was made by a representative and volunteer at the SHARE Foundation — thank you! CAPTURADOS EN SUCHITOTO1/CAPTURED IN SUCHITOTO :30 REPRESSION IN SUCHITOTO, EL SALVADOR, […]
Testimony of a visit to the Women’s Prison Thursday July 20th, 2007 Early this morning I was allowed to enter into the women’s prison to visit the political prisoners captured on the 2nd of July in a peaceful protest carried out in the communities around Suchitoto against the privatization of water, that President Tony Saca […]
We, the U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities Network, work for social change by building and defending sustainable communities and economies based on solidarity, dignity, and self-determination. Our work is driven by mutual community accompaniment, organizing, education, advocacy, and fundraising. We have prioritized supporting and defending human rights as a principal focus of that work. Anti-Militarization Advocacy […]