Category Archives: Rights for Youth and Women

Protest in Suchitoto, CRIPDES Leaders Captured – July 2, 2007

July 2, 2007   PROTEST IN SUCHITOTO, CRIPDES LEADERS CAPTURED BY POLICE We want to share some preliminary information about events that have taken place so far this morning that have led to the arbitrary arrest and continuing detention of CRIPDES leaders by the National Civilian Police (PNC) in the municipality of Suchitoto, Province of […]

Salvadoran Anti-Terrorism and its Mirror Image, March 3 2007

By Jesse Kates-Chinoy   Introduction: October, 2006:  The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly approves decree #108, the “Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism.”  The law is made public and applicable on November 16, 2006.  The law re-writes several articles of the Salvadoran Penal Code, and creates several new categories of felonies.  Most all of the acts that […]

San Vicente Scholarship Program Update, September 6 2006

CRIPDES San Vicente held its monthly Scholarship Student Program Assembly the 25th of August. Currently there are 19 scholarship students participating in the program, from the communities of San Bartolo, Guajoyo, Las Anonas, La Ceiba, amongst others. Sister Cities, through the support of the Philadelphia and Austin Committees, supports 14 of these scholarship students, with […]