Buy or reserve your tickets now! The National Gathering will be held in Austin, Texas this year on Columbus Day weekend (Oct. 11th and 12th). This is the same weekend as the Austin City Limits music festival so flights into Austin may fill up early.
Join Sister Cities Sunday, June 29th at 5 PM Eastern for our Interactive Webinar with members of the MPR-12 involved with Honduras Solidarity from El Salvador!! REGISTER HERE
MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmers and Garderners Associacion, is sistered with the Chalatenango Cripdes regional branch the CCR and CORDES. Adopted by MOFGA’s Board of Directors – April 6, 2014 MOFGA Mission Statement: The purpose of the Association is to help farmers and gardeners: grow organic food, fiber and other crops; protect the environment; recycle […]
Edith Portillo is the Secretary of the CRIPDES National Board of Directors, works as the Coordinator of Women’s programs for CRIPDES San Vicente, and is part of the leadership of the National Roundtable of Rural Women. She started working with CRIPDES in 1999, and considers herself the fruit of the work of CRIPDES in rural […]
Lovely members of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, I’d like to let you know that i’m leaving my position as SC El Salvador Co-Coordinator. I have loved working for Sister Cities so much! I’m leaving the position because I’m moving to Peru to live with my husband, but I´m bringing Sister Cities and CRIPDES in my […]
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. […]