Chalatenango Free of Mining International Observer Delegation: Community Consultations in El Salvador September 15-22, 2014 This delegation aims to bring international presence to observe community consultations in the department of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Participants in the delegation can expect to:
The President-elect of El Salvador has publicly committed to prohibit new mining during his administration, just as his predecessors have done since 2008. OceanaGold should respect the democratic process in El Salvador, abandon its acquisition of Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining, and drop its lawsuit against the government of El Salvador for not having permitted a […]
Updated from Tuesday, March 18th On Sunday, March 16th, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) officially announced Salvador Sanchez Ceren and Oscar Ortiz as the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect of El Salvador. The declaration was signed on to by all five of the TSE magistrates, including the magistrate from the National Republican Alliance party, ARENA, and […]
Given the electoral events of March 9, 2014: The Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES, hereby congratulates the Salvadoran people for exemplary behavior demonstrated during the civic party March 9, 2014, when we celebrated the presidential elections in our country . This civic celebration affirms, once again, the democratic commitment of our people […]
The following information is a compilation of Salvadoran news reports and observations from our allied organizations: Yesterday, Tuesday March 11th, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal began a process of revising the 21 forms that could not be counted in the Tribunal’s preliminary results, which showed the FMLN ahead of ARENA by 6, 634 votes (50.11% vs. […]
Sister Cities did not have a delegation for these elections, but Catie observed as part of the SHARE delegation at the International Fair Grounds, the largest voting center in the country, Estela was part of a vote receiving table in her neighborhood, and Cori observed with her parents Michael Ring and Maria Elena Martinez as […]
By Rachel Wyon, Cambridge-San Jose La Flores Committee As part of the Sister Cities Election Observation Delegation, I was in El Salvador from January 28-February 5. Election Day on February 2nd was a spectacular day. Twenty-two years after the signing of the Peace Accords – a short generation ago – and the FMLN and […]
With less than a week to go until the second round of voting, there is a sense of calm throughout El Salvador that would be unprecedented in elections past. Although Sister Cities is not bringing electoral observers for this second round, several other solidarity organizations will, and the Sister Cities staff and network supporters will […]
December 2013 Greetings Amigos and Amigas of Sister Cities, As some of you may know, in January I will be leaving my post as Sister Cities Co-Coordinator here in El Salvador. For the past four years, I have had the pleasure of working with our committees in Crystal Lake, Binghamton, Arlington, Chicago, Lawrence, Wichita […]
Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives by SARAH MASLIN At the crack of dawn on Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda, a non-profit in San Salvador that reunites families with children who went missing during El Salvador’s 1979-1992 civil war. They beat up the guards, poured gasoline […]