Honduras: Lobo Rewards Mining Porfirio Lobo appears smiling, posing together with the Canadian ambassador, Neil Reeder, and the mining businessmen, among them Patrick Docuney, executive director of Aura Mineral Inc. and David M. Petroff, a recognized investor of extractive mining, textile sweatshops and other areas. The photograph, on the official web site of the Honduran […]
Category Archives: Sister Cities
During the month of April, the state of Arizona passed a draconian law that threatens the civil rights of all and sets the stage for a hostile environment of racial profiling and harassment of anyone suspected of being in the United States without documentation of their legal status in the country. One aspect of the […]
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On March 26, we celebrated the 2010 International CRIPDES Sistering Assembly here in San Salvador with over 70 participants. Representatives attended from CRIPDES communities all over El Salvador, from the Madison, New Jersey and Lawrence Sister Cities committees, from Sister Parish, and from solidarity organizations in Bolivia, Spain and Norway. We came together to talk […]
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May 31st is the first day of hearings of Pacific Rim’s case against the government of El Salvador through the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). We hope that you can join us and other Salvadoran solidarity organizations in protesting the hearing in Washington DC. This is a great way to learn more […]
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On February 2nd, more than 140 international social organizations sent a letter to the Attorney General of El Salvador, and President Mauricio Funes denouncing the lack of justice in the cases of murdered environmentalists in the department of Cabañas and demanded measures to assure an impartial and thorough investigation. Among the organizations that signed the […]
There must be immediate, thorough investigations into the murders, threats and harassment that have taken place in Cabanas over the last year. The U.S.'s history of intervention in El Salvador and recent attempts to influence the Salvadoran election are well known. Recently, the U.S. Embassy criticized the National Roundtable Against Mining, denouncing their calls for investigation […]
On January 21st, Oscar Luna, the Ombudsman in Defense of of Human Rights in El Salvador, announced that he had received two death threats against himself and his family since January 8. The second one, delivered January 19, warned him that he had 48 hours to leave the country. The threats are claimed by a […]
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Since October 2009, there have been two volunteers from Lawrence, Kansas living in El Papaturro, Suchitoto, and working in the PROGRESO office. PROGRESO is a branch of CRIPDES working with 25 rural communities in the Suchitoto region. These sisters of solidarity, Jennifer Kongs and Sally Birmingham, will be in El Salvador until the end of […]
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Solidarity is the heart of the work of sister city committees. Through solidarity we build relationships, walk shoulder to shoulder with people who face global threats and learn that we face those very same threats. Through solidarity we share our sisters’ stories and they become more visible to the world. Through solidarity we organize and […]
The President of the Republic, Mauricio Funes, assured on January 12th that his government would investigate the assassinations of the environmentalists in Cabanas in depth, and reiterated that he would not permit mining projects in the country. “We promise our friends in the environmental movement that we are going to investigate the four assassinations of […]