Tag Archives: Carasque

New board in Carasque / Nueva junta en Carasque

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   On January 24, Carasque held elections for a brand new board. Miguel Franco is the new president and the other positions will be determined soon. The CCR accompanied this organizing effort. Carasque is sistered with Bangor, in Maine.       El domingo 24 de enero se realizaron elecciones de junta […]

Carasque – Violence against women 2020

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   CCR, CORDES and other organizations in the Chalatenango area held their annual commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Sunday, November 29. This year the event was held in Carasque, where a mural dedicated to Lorena Cruz and Yesenia Menjívar, two young people from the […]

A visitor from Bangor / Una visitante de Bangor

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Last december, the Bangor committee (sistered with Carasque) brought a delegation and one of its participants shares her perspective from the trip with us:   I traveled to El Salvador in December, 2019 with a Sister Cities delegation. This was my first trip to the country and my first trip with […]

Meeting Carasque /Conociendo Carasque

(En español abajo) Yesterday I had the chance to meet with old and new members of the board of Carasque, in the department of Chalatenango. Carasque’s sister city is Bangor (Maine).     This is a community that has constant communication with its sister city, despite the technical difficulties due to the signal in that […]

Bangor delegation on migration in the salvadoran community Carasque

Joanie Ellis, from PICA, wrote the following after visiting Carasque, a community in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador. We hope you enjoy this material, included in their June newsletter.   Leaving Carasque Joanie Ellis   In my dream we are riding on a bus filled with many Caresqueños. Laughing, singing, all in high […]

MOFGA Inspired by Jan. 2015 Delegation

Stong Interest in Local Organic Foods in El Salvador By the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee   Interest in organic farming and gardening and in permaculture is strong in El Salvador. That was one of the principle lessons that four members of the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee learned while visiting our sister organizations and other groups […]

Armed Forces Patrol Chalatenango Communities, October 3 2006

October 3, 2006 Staff San Salvador-Last week in Carasque, Chalatenango, a truckload of soldiers arrived without noticed, and before consulting with local authorities climbed the hill behind the village.  When members of the community board of Carasque realized what was going on, they fired up the PA system to call the community together.  Given that […]