By the Communication Team of the Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) Representatives of twenty organizations from Honduras, El Salvador and sister countries participated November 30th and December 1st in the forum "Lessons from Honduras: Challenges, threats and options for the Democratization of Latin America and the Caribbean" at the Lutheran University of El […]
Contributed by Power in Community Alliances (PICA) The plans of U.S. and Canadian mining companies to begin mining gold in El Salvador continues to threaten Salvadoran rural communities. Salvadoran environmental and anti-mining activists have been assassinated and threatened. Through a free-trade provision closely resembling legal extortion, the Pacific Rim Mining Company continues its CAFTA suit demanding that […]
By the communications team of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining. After the way mining companies have been rejected by Salvadoran society, refused permits by the government and discredited by links to violence (Pacific Rim in Cabanas) and contamination with cyanide, heavy metals and acid drainage (Commerce Group in Santa Rosa de Lima), you would […]
In Milwaukee, contact Babette Grunow at (414) 447-8369 In Washington, DC, contact Alexis Stoumbelis at (202) 521-2510 In La Crosse, contact Al Gedicks at (608) 785-6782 In El Salvador, contact (in Spanish) David Pereira at 011 503 2225-1906 Ext. 106 In El Salvador ( in English), contact Sarah Bishop at 011 503 785-727-2252 Community […]
No Dirty Gold in El Salvador! We Oppose Commerce Group’s Lawsuit Against the People of El Salvador! In response to El Salvador’s rural grassroots movement to stop destructive gold mining in the departments of Cabanas and La Union, both Pacific Rim and Commerce Group are suing the government of El Salvador for $77 million and […]
Phase One of the Commerce Group vs. the Government of El Salvador Hearings Complete On Monday, November 15th the Milwaukee based mining company Commerce Group and San Sebastian Mines Inc squared off against the government of El Salvador in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a part of the World Bank. The […]
For the second time in the last three months members of the Center of Investigations into Investment and Commerce (CEICOM), an active member of the National Roundtable against Mineral Mining, have been kidnapped, robbed and left at an abandoned farm while traveling in Guatemala. In both instances the anti-mining activists were traveling to events in […]
Sistering Successes · We brought 7 delegations from 7 committees, a total of 61 people, to El Salvador to learn and exchange ideas with their sistered communities. · We had 4 volunteers representing Sister Cities in El Salvador and one volunteer in the U.S. office · The New Jersey and San Isidro/Los Amates Sister City […]
A Fact Sheet on the Situation in Honduras Honduras Since the Coup · June 28th, 2010 marked a year since a military coup was carried out against the government of President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. The coup was launched after the Zelaya administration enacted policy steps that threatened the dominance of the right wing Honduran […]
Sister Cities just got through with a great 11 day tour of the East Coast. Sister Cities staff were joined on the visit by German Gonzalez, who has been working with CRIPDES in the region of Suchitoto for over 12 years. We visited the committees of Binghamton, NY, Arlington and Cambridge MA, Concord New Hampshire […]