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VERDICT IS OUT! Please Take Action The 14 detainees and CRIPDES leaders were tried today in a Special Tribunal for Acts of Terrorism. Judge Ana Lucila Fuentes de Paz dismissed the charges for 1 detainee, and decreed "Preventative Detention" for 3 months for the other 13, maintaining the terrorism charges and allowing the prosecutors […]
Latest News, Call to Action : CRIPDES Leaders Arrested, Violent Repression of Protest in Suchitoto, El Salvador on July 2nd July 5, 2007, 16:00 EDT Dear friends, Thank you for your attentiveness and patience in following the news after the events of July 2 in Suchitoto, Cuscatlán Province, El Salvador. Our partners […]
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April 30, 2007 PROGRESO Monthly Update #1 Introduction: This document is the second in a series of monthly updates on the work of the PROGRESO, the regional branch of CRIPDES, and documenting the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Suchitoto. PROGRESO, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has decided to share […]
April 27, 2007 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #5 Introduction: This is the fifth in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera. The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, […]
Chalatenango and Morazan Communities Protest Mining Companies´ Environmental Impacts Study By Sebastián Darío January 10th, 2007 San Salvador—Busloads of citizens from mining affected zones of the Chalatenango and Morazan provinces gathered outside the offices of the Salvadoran Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources yesterday to protest the request for environmental permission to […]
February 2, 2006 ARDM-Cinquera Monthly Update #3 Introduction: This is the third in the series of monthly updates on the work of the Association for Reconstruction and Municipal Development (ARDM) and the social, political, economic and cultural panorama in Cinquera. The ARDM, with support from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities local staff, has […]
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Sister Cities is proud to work directly with the Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) the largest rural organization in the country and a leader in the Salvadoran social movement. Formerly the Christian Committee of the Displaced, CRIPDES was founded in 1984 to support people displaced by the Salvadoran civil war as they […]